A density of partons with a given flavour and momentum fraction at a specified parton factorization scale. It is a number density, not generally a distribution normalized to one.
The scale at which collinear contributions are assigned to parton distribution functions rather than the hard scattering coefficient. The separate factors depend on this scale, while a consistently calculated physical differential scattering cross-section does not.
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