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The PDF4LHC Working Group Interim Recommendations

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2011-01-04 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

This note provides an interim summary of the current recommendations of the PDF4LHC working group for the use of parton distribution functions (PDFs) and of PDF uncertainties at the LHC, for cross section and cross section uncertainty calculations. It also contains a succinct user guide to the computation of PDF uncertainties and correlations using available PDF sets. A companion note (the PDF4LHC Working Group Interim Report) summarizes predictions for benchmark cross sections at the LHC (7 TeV) at NLO using modern PDFs currently available from 6 PDF fitting groups.

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@article{arxiv.1101.0538,
  title  = {The PDF4LHC Working Group Interim Recommendations},
  author = {Michiel Botje and Jon Butterworth and Amanda Cooper-Sarkar and Albert de Roeck and Joel Feltesse and Stefano Forte and Alexander Glazov and Joey Huston and Ronan McNulty and Torbjorn Sjostrand and Robert Thorne},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1101.0538},
  year   = {2011}
}

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