NNLO PDFs driven by top-quark data

Abstract

We study the impact of state-of-the-art top-quark data collected at the Large Hadron Collider on parton distribution functions (PDFs). Following the ABMP methodology, the fit extracts simultaneously proton PDFs, the strong coupling ${\alpha }_s(M_Z)$ and heavy-quark masses at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) accuracy in QCD. It includes recent high-statistics data on absolute total inclusive cross sections for $t\bar{t}+X$, the sum of $(t+X)$ and $(\bar{t}+X)$ hadroproduction, and normalized inclusive data double-differential in the invariant mass and rapidity of the $t\bar{t}$ pair at $\sqrt{S}=13$ TeV. The gluon PDF at large $x$ and the top-quark mass value derived from these data are well compatible with the previous ABMP16 results, but with significantly smaller uncertainties, reduced by up to a factor of two. At NNLO in QCD we obtain for the strong coupling the value ${\alpha }_s^{(n_f=5)}(M_Z)=0.1150\pm 0.0009$ and for the top-quark mass in the ${\overline{\mbox{MS}}}$-scheme $m_t(m_t)=160.6\pm 0.6$ GeV, corresponding to $m_t^{\mathrm{pole}}=170.2\pm 0.7$ GeV in the on-shell scheme. The new fit, dubbed ABMPtt, is publicly released in grids in LHAPDF format.

33 pages, 22 figures, 4 tables, interpolation tables for top-antitop production available at https://ploughshare.web.cern.ch v2: minor revision accounting for the comments of the Referee, to be published in EPJC

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