• Accepted Paper

Impact of parity-violating deep-inelastic scattering on the weak mixing angle and high-x parton distributions

R. M. Whitehill, M. M. Dalton, T. Liu, W. Melnitchouk, and N. Sato

Phys. Rev. D - Accepted 9 November, 2026

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/12x5-nwrh

Abstract

We discuss the impact of neutral-current parity-violating deep-inelastic scattering (PVDIS) of electrons from protons and deuterons on the determination of the weak mixing angle, $\sin^2{\theta_{\rm W}}$, and parton distribution functions (PDFs) at large parton momentum fractions x. Using the JAM global QCD analysis framework, we study the effect of incorporating pseudodata simulated for 11~GeV and 22~GeV Jefferson Lab kinematics, accounting for radiative corrections in a factorized QED+QCD approach and uncertainties from higher-twist corrections in γZ exchange. We find that including future PVDIS pseudodata could yield important constraints on the value of $\sin^2{\theta_{\rm W}}$ at low Q2 and on the high-x behavior of the strange-quark PDF and the d/u PDF ratio. The strong correlation between $\sin^2{\theta_{\rm W}}$ and the x dependence of the PDFs demonstrates the necessity for a simultaneous analysis of QCD and electroweak quantities to ensure an unbiased determination of the weak mixing angle from PVDIS data.

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