Parton distributions for event generators

DOI10.1007/JHEP04(2010)035MaRDI QIDQ367835zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Hung-Liang Lai, Stephen Mrenna, Pavel M. Nadolsky, Daniel Stump, Wu-Ki Tung, C.-P. Yuan, J. Huston

Publication date 16 September 2013

Published in Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0910.4183

zbMATH Keywords

QCD phenomenology

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nuclear physics (81V35) (2)-body potential quantum scattering theory (81U05) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05)

Abstract: In this paper, conventional Global QCD analysis is generalized to produce parton distributions optimized for use with event generators at the LHC. This optimization is accomplished by combining the constraints due to existing hard-scattering experimental data with those from anticipated cross sections for key representative SM processes at LHC (by the best available theory) as joint input to the global analyses. The PDFs obtained in these new type of global analyses using matrix elements calculated in any given order will be best suited to work with event generators of that order, for predictions at the LHC. This is most useful for LO event generators at present. Results obtained from a few candidate PDF sets (labeled as CT09MCS, CT09MC1 and CT09MC2) for LO event generators produced in this way are compared with those from other approaches.

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Cites work

• A brief introduction to PYTHIA 8.1
• PYTHIA 6.4 physics and manual

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• High-energy-physics event generation with PYTHIA 6. 1
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• Double parton distributions incorporating perturbative QCD evolution and momentum and quark number sum rules
• Reconstruction of Monte Carlo replicas from Hessian parton distributions

Describes a project that uses

Uses Software

• MadGraph
• PYTHIA8
• MC@NLO

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