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 …

Exploring QCD matter in extreme conditions with Machine Learning

K Zhou, L Wang, LG Pang, S Shi - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2024 - Elsevier
In recent years, machine learning has emerged as a powerful computational tool and novel
problem-solving perspective for physics, offering new avenues for studying strongly …

Event generator tunes obtained from underlying event and multiparton scattering measurements

V Khachatryan, AM Sirunyan, A Tumasyan… - The European Physical …, 2016 - Springer
New sets of parameters (“tunes”) for the underlying-event (UE) modelling of the pythia 8,
pythia6 and herwig++ Monte Carlo event generators are constructed using different parton …

Parton distributions for the LHC Run II

RD Ball, V Bertone, S Carrazza, CS Deans… - Journal of High Energy …, 2015 - Springer
A bstract We present NNPDF3. 0, the first set of parton distribution functions (PDFs)
determined with a methodology validated by a closure test. NNPDF3. 0 uses a global …

Parton distributions with LHC data

RD Ball, V Bertone, S Carrazza, CS Deans… - Nuclear Physics B, 2013 - Elsevier
We present the first determination of parton distributions of the nucleon at NLO and NNLO
based on a global data set which includes LHC data: NNPDF2. 3. Our data set includes …

LHAPDF6: parton density access in the LHC precision era

A Buckley, J Ferrando, S Lloyd, K Nordström… - The European Physical …, 2015 - Springer
The Fortran LHAPDF library has been a long-term workhorse in particle physics, providing
standardised access to parton density functions for experimental and phenomenological …

Top++: a program for the calculation of the top-pair cross-section at hadron colliders

M Czakon, A Mitov - Computer Physics Communications, 2014 - Elsevier
We present the program Top++ for the numerical evaluation of the total inclusive cross-
section for producing top quark pairs at hadron colliders. The program calculates the cross …

Tuning PYTHIA 8.1: the Monash 2013 tune

P Skands, S Carrazza, J Rojo - The European Physical Journal C, 2014 - Springer
We present an updated set of parameters for the PYTHIA 8 event generator. We reevaluate
the constraints imposed by LEP and SLD on hadronization, in particular with regard to heavy …

Measurements of properties of the Higgs boson decaying into the four-lepton final state in pp collisions at TeV

AM Sirunyan, A Tumasyan, W Adam, F Ambrogi… - Journal of High Energy …, 2017 - Springer
A bstract Properties of the Higgs boson are measured in the H→ ZZ→ 4ℓ (ℓ= e, μ) decay
channel. A data sample of proton-proton collisions at\(\sqrt {s}= 13\) TeV, collected with the …

Handbook of LHC Higgs cross sections: 3. Higgs properties

S Heinemeyer, C Mariotti, G Passarino… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2013 - arxiv.org
This Report summarizes the results of the activities in 2012 and the first half of 2013 of the
LHC Higgs Cross Section Working Group. The main goal of the working group was to …