PDF4LHC recommendations for LHC run II

J Butterworth, S Carrazza… - Journal of Physics G …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We provide an updated recommendation for the usage of sets of parton distribution functions
(PDFs) and the assessment of PDF and PDF+ ${\alpha} _ {s} $ uncertainties suitable for …

Heavy-flavour and quarkonium production in the LHC era: from proton–proton to heavy-ion collisions

A Andronic, F Arleo, R Arnaldi, A Beraudo… - The European Physical …, 2016 - Springer
This report reviews the study of open heavy-flavour and quarkonium production in high-
energy hadronic collisions, as tools to investigate fundamental aspects of Quantum …

nNNPDF3. 0: evidence for a modified partonic structure in heavy nuclei

R Abdul Khalek, R Gauld, T Giani, ER Nocera… - The European Physical …, 2022 - Springer
We present an updated determination of nuclear parton distributions (nPDFs) from a global
NLO QCD analysis of hard processes in fixed-target lepton-nucleus and proton-nucleus …

[PDF][PDF] Parton distributions from high-precision collider data: NNPDF Collaboration

RD Ball, V Bertone, S Carrazza, LD Debbio… - The European Physical …, 2017 - Springer
We present a new set of parton distributions, NNPDF3. 1, which updates NNPDF3. 0, the first
global set of PDFs determined using a methodology validated by a closure test. The update …

[LIBRO][B] arxiv: Handbook of LHC Higgs Cross Sections: 4. Deciphering the Nature of the Higgs Sector

D de Florian, D Fontes, J Quevillon, M Schumacher… - 2016 - cds.cern.ch
This Report summarizes the results of the activities of the LHC Higgs Cross Section Working
Group in the period 2014–2016. The main goal of the working group was to present the state …

Parton distribution functions, , and heavy-quark masses for LHC Run II

S Alekhin, J Blümlein, S Moch, R Plačakytė - Physical Review D, 2017 - APS
We determine a new set of parton distribution functions (ABMP16), the strong coupling
constant α s and the quark masses mc, mb and mt in a global fit to next-to-next-to-leading …

Performance of b-jet identification in the ATLAS experiment

ATLAS Collaboration - 2016 - repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt
The identification of jets containing b hadrons is important for the physics programme of the
ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider. Several algorithms to identify jets …

Observation of the Higgs boson decay to a pair of tau leptons with the CMS detector

CMS collaboration - arxiv preprint arxiv:1708.00373, 2017 - arxiv.org
A measurement of the coupling strength of the Higgs boson to a pair of tau leptons is
performed using events recorded in proton-proton collisions by the CMS experiment at the …

Parton distributions in the LHC era: MMHT 2014 PDFs

LA Harland-Lang, AD Martin, P Motylinski… - The European Physical …, 2015 - Springer
We present LO, NLO and NNLO sets of parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the proton
determined from global analyses of the available hard scattering data. These MMHT2014 …

A Monte Carlo global analysis of the Standard Model Effective Field Theory: the top quark sector

NP Hartland, F Maltoni, ER Nocera, J Rojo… - Journal of High Energy …, 2019 - Springer
A bstract We present a novel framework for carrying out global analyses of the Standard
Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT) at dimension-six: SMEFiT. This approach is based on …