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HERAFitter - An Open Source framework to determine PDFs

High Energy Physics - Experiment 2015-05-20 v1 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

The HERAFitter project provides a framework for the determination of parton distribution functions (PDFs), and tools for assessing the impact of new data on PDFs. In this contribution, HERAFitter is used for a QCD analysis of the legacy measurements of the WW-boson charge asymmetry and of the ZZ-boson production cross sections, performed at the Tevatron collider in Run II by the D0 and CDF collaborations. The Tevatron measurements are included in a PDF fit performed at next-to-leading order, and compared to the predictions obtained using other PDF sets from different groups. The measurements are in good agreement with NLO QCD theoretical predictions. The Tevatron data provide significant constraints on the dd-valence quark distribution.

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@article{arxiv.1505.04973,
  title  = {HERAFitter - An Open Source framework to determine PDFs},
  author = {Stefano Camarda},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.04973},
  year   = {2015}
}

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