A critical appraisal and evaluation of modern PDFs

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作者
Accardi, A. [1 ,2 ]
Alekhin, S. [3 ,4 ]
Blumlein, J. [5 ]
Garzelli, M. V. [3 ]
Lipka, K. [6 ]
Melnitchouk, W. [2 ]
Moch, S. [3 ]
Owens, J. F. [7 ]
Placakyte, R. [6 ]
Reya, E. [8 ]
Sato, N. [2 ]
Vogt, A. [9 ]
Zenaiev, O. [6 ]
机构
[1] Hampton Univ, Hampton, VA 23668 USA
[2] Jefferson Lab, Newport News, VA 23606 USA
[3] Univ Hamburg, Inst Theoret Phys 2, Luruper Chaussee 149, D-22761 Hamburg, Germany
[4] Inst High Energy Phys, Protvino 142281, Moscow Region, Russia
[5] Deutsch Elektronensynchrotron DESY, Platanenallee 6, D-15738 Zeuthen, Germany
[6] Deutsch Elektronensynchrotron DESY, Notkestr 85, D-22607 Hamburg, Germany
[7] Florida State Univ, Tallahassee, FL 32306 USA
[8] Tech Univ Dortmund, Inst Phys, D-44221 Dortmund, Germany
[9] Univ Liverpool, Dept Math Sci, Liverpool L69 3BX, Merseyside, England
来源
EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C | 2016年 / 76卷 / 08期
关键词
DEEP-INELASTIC-SCATTERING; OPERATOR MATRIX-ELEMENTS; HEAVY FLAVOR PRODUCTION; HIGGS-BOSON PRODUCTION; LONGITUDINAL STRUCTURE-FUNCTION; 3-LOOP SPLITTING FUNCTIONS; LOG RADIATIVE-CORRECTIONS; PRODUCTION CROSS-SECTION; STRUCTURE-FUNCTION F-2(X; LEPTON CHARGE ASYMMETRY;
D O I
10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-4285-4
中图分类号
O412 [相对论、场论]; O572.2 [粒子物理学];
学科分类号
摘要
We reviewthe present status of the determination of parton distribution functions (PDFs) in the light of the precision requirements for the LHC in Run 2 and other future hadron colliders. We provide brief reviews of all currently available PDF sets and use them to compute cross sections for a number of benchmark processes, including Higgs boson production in gluon-gluon fusion at the LHC. We show that the differences in the predictions obtained with the various PDFs are due to particular theory assumptions made in the fits of those PDFs. We discuss PDFuncertainties in the kinematic region covered by the LHC and on averaging procedures for PDFs, such as advocated by the PDF4LHC15 sets, and provide recommendations for the usage of PDF sets for theory predictions at the LHC.
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