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The photon PDF from high-mass Drell-Yan data at the LHC

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2017-08-04 v1

Abstract

I present a determination of the photon PDF from a fit to the recent ATLAS measurements of high-mass Drell-Yan lepton-pair production at s=8\sqrt{s} = 8 TeV. This analysis is based on the {\tt xFitter} framework interfaced to the {\tt APFEL} program, that accounts for NLO QED effects, and to the {\tt aMCfast} code to account for the photon-initiated contributions within {\tt MadGraph5\_aMC@NLO}. The result is compared with other recent determinations of the photon PDF finding a general good agreement.

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@article{arxiv.1708.00912,
  title  = {The photon PDF from high-mass Drell-Yan data at the LHC},
  author = {Valerio Bertone},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.00912},
  year   = {2017}
}

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8 pages, 6 figures, Proceedings of the PHOTON'17 workshop

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