English

The Effect of Final HERA inclusive Cross Section Data on MMHT2014 PDFs

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-08-27 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We investigate the effect of including the HERA run I + II combined cross section data on the MMHT2014 PDFs. We present the fit quality within the context of the global fit and when only the HERA data are included. We examine the changes in both the central values and uncertainties in the PDFs. We find that the prediction for the data is good, and only relatively small improvements in χ2\chi^2 and changes in the PDFs are obtained with a refit at both NLO and NNLO. PDF uncertainties are slightly reduced. There is a small dependence of the fit quality on the value of Qmin2Q^2_{\min}.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.1508.06621,
  title  = {The Effect of Final HERA inclusive Cross Section Data on MMHT2014 PDFs},
  author = {R. S. Thorne and L. A. Harland-Lang and A. D. Martin and P. Motylinski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.06621},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

6 pages, to be published in the proceedings of EPS 2015