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Updating and Optimizing Error PDFs in the Hessian Approach. Part II

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2019-12-18 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment High Energy Physics - Lattice

Abstract

In an earlier publication, we introduced the software package, {\tt \texttt{ePump}} (error PDF Updating Method Package), that can be used to update or optimize a set of parton distribution functions (PDFs), including the best-fit PDF set and Hessian eigenvector pairs of PDF sets (i.e., error PDFs), and to update any other set of observables, in the Hessian approach. Here, we validate the {\tt \texttt{ePump}} program with a detailed comparison against a full global analysis, and we demonstrate the potential of {\tt \texttt{ePump}} by presenting selected phenomenological applications relevant to the Large Hadron Collider. For example, we use the package to estimate the impact of the recent LHC data of the measurements of WW, ZZ boson and top quark pair differential distributions on the CT14HERA2 PDFs.

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@article{arxiv.1907.12177,
  title  = {Updating and Optimizing Error PDFs in the Hessian Approach. Part II},
  author = {Tie-Jiun Hou and Zhite Yu and Sayipjamal Dulat and Carl Schmidt and C. -P. Yuan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.12177},
  year   = {2019}
}

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