The PDF4LHC Working Group Interim Report

Abstract

This document is intended as a study of benchmark cross sections at the LHC (at 7 TeV) at NLO using modern parton distribution functions currently available from the 6 PDF fitting groups that have participated in this exercise. It also contains a succinct user guide to the computation of PDFs, uncertainties and correlations using available PDF sets. A companion note, also submitted to the archive, provides an interim summary of the current recommendations of the PDF4LHC working group for the use of parton distribution functions and of PDF uncertainties at the LHC, for cross section and cross section uncertainty calculations.

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• Search for the standard model Higgs boson decaying to bottom quarks in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV
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• Search for anomalous single top quark production in association with a photon in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV
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• Search for contact interactions and large extra dimensions in the dilepton mass spectra from proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=$ 13 TeV
• Search for direct pair production of supersymmetric top quarks decaying to all-hadronic final states in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV
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• Search for supersymmetry with photons in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV
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• Search for supersymmetry in events with opposite-sign dileptons and missing transverse energy using an artificial neural network
• On the Impact of NMC Data on NLO and NNLO Parton Distributions and Higgs Production at the Tevatron and the LHC
• Search for baryon number violation in top-quark decays
• Search for a Standard Model Higgs boson in the mass range 200-600 GeV in the H->ZZ->llqq decay channel
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• Search for direct pair production of scalar top quarks in the single- and dilepton channels in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV
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• Top quark physics in the Large Hadron Collider era
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• The PDFLattice2017 workshop: a summary report
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