We present NNPDF4.0MC, a variant of the NNPDF4.0 set of parton distributions (PDFs) at LO, NLO and NNLO, with and without inclusion of the photon PDF, suitable for use with Monte Carlo (MC) event generators, which require PDFs to satisfy additional constraints in comparison to standard PDF sets. These requirements include PDF positivity down to a low scale Q similar to 1 GeV, smooth extrapolation in the very small and large x regions, and numerically stable results even in extreme regions of phase space for all PDFs. We compare the NNPDF4.0MC PDFs to their baseline NNPDF4.0 counterparts, and to the NNPDF2.3LO set entering the Monash tune of the Pythia8 event generator. We briefly assess the phenomenological impact of these PDFs on the cross-sections for hard and soft QCD processes at the LHC.

LO, NLO, and NNLO parton distributions for LHC event generators / J. Cruz-Martinez, S. Forte, N. Laurenti, T.R. Rabemananjara, J. Rojo. - In: JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS. - ISSN 1029-8479. - 2024:9(2024 Sep 17), pp. 88.1-88.17. [10.1007/jhep09(2024)088]

LO, NLO, and NNLO parton distributions for LHC event generators

S. Forte
Secondo
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N. Laurenti;
2024

Abstract

We present NNPDF4.0MC, a variant of the NNPDF4.0 set of parton distributions (PDFs) at LO, NLO and NNLO, with and without inclusion of the photon PDF, suitable for use with Monte Carlo (MC) event generators, which require PDFs to satisfy additional constraints in comparison to standard PDF sets. These requirements include PDF positivity down to a low scale Q similar to 1 GeV, smooth extrapolation in the very small and large x regions, and numerically stable results even in extreme regions of phase space for all PDFs. We compare the NNPDF4.0MC PDFs to their baseline NNPDF4.0 counterparts, and to the NNPDF2.3LO set entering the Monash tune of the Pythia8 event generator. We briefly assess the phenomenological impact of these PDFs on the cross-sections for hard and soft QCD processes at the LHC.
Parton Distributions; Parton Shower; Specific QCD Phenomenology
Settore PHYS-02/A - Fisica teorica delle interazioni fondamentali, modelli, metodi matematici e applicazioni
Settore PHYS-01/A - Fisica sperimentale delle interazioni fondamentali e applicazioni
17-set-2024
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