Journal
JOURNAL OF PHYSICS G-NUCLEAR AND PARTICLE PHYSICS
Volume 43, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/0954-3899/43/2/023001
Keywords
parton distribution functions; LHC phenomenology; Higgs physics
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Funding
- Italian PRIN grant
- European Investment Bank EIBURS grant
- Executive Research Agency (REA) of the European Commission [PITN-GA-2012-316704]
- Lagrange award
- HICCUP ERC Consolidator grant [614577]
- US Department of Energy, High Energy Physics, Office of Science [DE-AC02-06CH11357]
- US Department of Energy [DE-SC0013681]
- STFC Rutherford Fellowship [ST/K005227/1, ST/M003787/1]
- European Research Council Starting Grant 'PDF4BSM'
- London Centre for Terauniverse Studies (LCTS), from the European Research Council via the Advanced Investigator Grant [267352]
- Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) [ST/J000515/1, ST/L000377/1]
- STFC [ST/K005227/1, ST/L000377/1, ST/K001426/1, ST/L000474/1, ST/M003787/1, ST/J000515/1, ST/K00137X/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/L000377/1, ST/K001426/1 ATLAS, ST/K005227/1, ST/K00137X/1, ST/M003787/1, ST/K001426/1, ST/L000474/1, ST/J000515/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-SC0013681] Funding Source: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
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We provide an updated recommendation for the usage of sets of parton distribution functions (PDFs) and the assessment of PDF and PDF+alpha(s) uncertainties suitable for applications at the LHC Run II. We review developments since the previous PDF4LHC recommendation, and discuss and compare the new generation of PDFs, which include substantial information from experimental data from the Run I of the LHC. We then propose a new prescription for the combination of a suitable subset of the available PDF sets, which is presented in terms of a single combined PDF set. We finally discuss tools which allow for the delivery of this combined set in terms of optimized sets of Hessian eigenvectors or Monte Carlo replicas, and their usage, and provide some examples of their application to LHC phenomenology. This paper is dedicated to the memory of Guido Altarelli (1941-2015), whose seminal work made possible the quantitative study of PDFs.
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