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A Benchmarking of QCD Evolution at Approximate $N^3LO$

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2024-06-25 v1

Abstract

We present a detailed benchmarking of different treatments of the QCD evolution of unpolarized PDFs at approximate N3LON^3LO (aN3LOaN^3LO) order in the QCD coupling. Namely, the implementations in the public aN3LOaN^3LO releases of the MSHT and NNPDF global PDF fitters, as well as that of the theoretical FHMRUVV collaboration are compared. This follows the same procedure as in previous benchmarking exercises at lower order, that is by considering the impact of this evolution on a set of simple toy PDFs.

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@article{arxiv.2406.16188,
  title  = {A Benchmarking of QCD Evolution at Approximate $N^3LO$},
  author = {A. Cooper-Sarkar and T. Cridge and F. Giuli and L. A. Harland-Lang and F. Hekhorn and J. Huston and G. Magni and S. Moch and R. S. Thorne},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.16188},
  year   = {2024}
}
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