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CERN-PH-TH/2005-118 Impact of large-x resummation on parton distribution functions 1 G. Corcella∗ and L. Magnea† 5 0 ∗ CERN, Department of Physics, Theory Division, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland 0 † Università di Torino and INFN, Sezione di Torino, Via P. Giuria 1, I-10125, Torino, Italy 2 l u Abstract. We investigate the effect of large-x resummation on parton distributions by performing a J fit of Deep Inelastic Scattering data from the NuTeV, BCDMS and NMC collaborations, using NLO 4 and NLL soft-resummed coefficient functions. Our results show that soft resummation has a visible impact on quark densities at large x . Resummed parton fits would therefore be needed whenever 1 high precision is required for cross sections evaluated near partonic threshold. v 2 4 0 A precise knowledge of parton distribution functions (PDF’s) at large x is important 7 to achieve the accuracy goals of the LHC and other high energy accelerators. We present 0 5 a simple fit of Deep Inelastic Scattering (DIS) structure function data, and extract NLO 0 and NLL-resummed quark densities, in order to establish qualitatively the effects of / h soft-gluon resummation. 2 p Structure functions F (x ,Q ) are given by the convolution of coefficient functions and i - p PDF’s. Finite-order coefficient functions present logarithmic terms that are singular at e x = 1, and ori