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Simultaneous extraction of top quark mass, strong coupling, effective mixing angle, and proton PDFs using inclusive DIS and proton-proton collision data
Mikel Mendizabal Morentin, Katerina Lipka, Giovanni Limatola +4
We present the first simultaneous determination of the proton parton distribution functions (PDFs) together with the strong coupling, the top quark pole mass, and the effective wea…
Energy-scaling behavior of intrinsic transverse momentum parameters in Drell-Yan simulation
CMS Collaboration
An analysis is presented based on models of the intrinsic transverse momentum (intrinsic ) of partons in nucleons by studying the dilepton transverse momentum in Drel…
A framework for simultaneous fit of QCD and BSM parameters with xFitter
XiaoMin Shen, Simone Amoroso, Jun Gao +2
An extension of the xFitter open-source program for QCD analyses is presented, allowing for a polynomial parameterization of the dependence of physical observables on theoretical p…
Probing the weak mixing angle at high energies at the LHC and HL-LHC
Simone Amoroso, Mauro Chiesa, Clara Lavinia Del Pio +4
Measurements of neutral current Drell-Yan production at large invariant dilepton masses can be used to test the energy scale dependence (running) of the electroweak mixing angle. I…
Single-differential top quark pair production cross sections with running mass schemes at NLO
Toni Mäkelä, André Hoang, Katerina Lipka +1
Single-differential cross section predictions for top quark pair production are presented at next-to-leading order, using running top quark mass renormalization schemes. The evolut…
Running of the top quark mass at NNLO in QCD
Matteo M. Defranchis, Jan Kieseler, Katerina Lipka +1
The running of the top quark mass () is probed at the next-to-next-to-leading order in quantum chromodynamics for the first time. The result is obtained by comparing…
The strong coupling constant: State of the art and the decade ahead
D. d'Enterria, S. Kluth, G. Zanderighi +55
Theoretical predictions for particle production cross sections and decays at colliders rely heavily on perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) calculations, expressed as an expan…
Improved constraints on parton distributions using LHCb, ALICE and HERA heavy-flavour measurements and implications for the predictions for prompt atmospheric-neutrino fluxes
O. Zenaiev, M. V. Garzelli, K. Lipka +5
The impact of measurements of heavy-flavour production in deep inelastic scattering and in collisions on parton distribution functions is studied in a QCD analysis at nex…
Vector boson scattering: Recent experimental and theory developments
C. F. Anders, A. Ballestrero, J. Balz +111
This document summarises the talks and discussions happened during the VBSCan Split17 workshop, the first general meeting of the VBSCan COST Action network. This collaboration is a…
Running of the Charm-Quark Mass from HERA Deep-Inelastic Scattering Data
A. Gizhko, A. Geiser, S. Moch +47
Combined HERA data on charm production in deep-inelastic scattering have previously been used to determine the charm-quark running mass in the MSbar renormalisation sche…
Prompt neutrino fluxes in the atmosphere with PROSA parton distribution functions
PROSA Collaboration, M. V. Garzelli, S. Moch +6
Effects on atmospheric prompt neutrino fluxes of present uncertainties affecting the nucleon composition are studied by using the PROSA fit to parton distribution functions (PDFs).…
A Critical Appraisal and Evaluation of Modern PDFs
A. Accardi, S. Alekhin, J. Blümlein +10
We review the present status of the determination of parton distribution functions (PDFs) in the light of the precision requirements for the LHC in Run 2 and other future hadron co…
Calibration of the Top-Quark Monte-Carlo Mass
Jan Kieseler, Katerina Lipka, Sven-Olaf Moch
We present a method to establish experimentally the relation between the top-quark mass as implemented in Monte-Carlo generators and the Lagrangian mass parameter …
The PDF4LHC report on PDFs and LHC data: Results from Run I and preparation for Run II
Juan Rojo, Alberto Accardi, Richard D. Ball +20
The accurate determination of the Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs) of the proton is an essential ingredient of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) program. PDF uncertainties impact…
Impact of heavy-flavour production cross sections measured by the LHCb experiment on parton distribution functions at low x
Oleksandr Zenaiev, Achim Geiser, Katerina Lipka +11
The impact of recent measurements of heavy-flavour production in deep inelastic scattering and in collisions on parton distribution functions is studied in a QCD analysis…
Nucleon PDF separation with the collider and fixed-target data
S. Alekhin, J. Bluemlein, L. Caminada +5
We consider the impact of the recent data obtained by the LHC, Tevatron, and fixed-target experiments on the nucleon quark distributions with a particular focus on disentangling di…
HERAFitter, Open Source QCD Fit Project
S. Alekhin, O. Behnke, P. Belov +50
HERAFitter is an open-source package that provides a framework for the determination of the parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the proton and for many different kinds of analy…
Differential cross sections for top pair production at the LHC
Marco Guzzi, Katerina Lipka, Sven-Olaf Moch
We present results of phenomenological studies for top-quark pair production at the LHC at the center of mass energy TeV. The transverse momentum and rapidity distri…
Top-quark pair production at hadron colliders: differential cross section and phenomenological applications with DiffTop
Marco Guzzi, Katerina Lipka, Sven-Olaf Moch
The results of phenomenological studies of top-quark pair production in proton-proton collisions are presented. Differential cross sections are calculated in perturbative QCD at ap…
Determination of Strange Sea Quark Distributions from Fixed-target and Collider Data
S. Alekhin, J. Bluemlein, L. Caminadac +5
We present an improved determination of the strange sea distribution in the nucleon with constraints coming from the recent charm production data in neutrino-nucleon deep-inelastic…
Top-quark production at the LHC: differential cross section and phenomenological applications
Marco Guzzi, Katerina Lipka, Sven-Olaf Moch
We discuss top-quark pair production at hadron colliders and review available calculations of differential top-pair production cross section in perturbative QCD at approximate next…
Precise charm-quark mass from deep-inelastic scattering
S. Alekhin, J. Blumlein, K. Daum +2
We present a determination of the charm-quark mass in the MSbar scheme using the data combination of charm production cross section measurements in deep-inelastic scattering at HER…
Determination of the charm-quark mass in the MS-bar scheme using charm production data from deep inelastic scattering at HERA
S. Alekhin, K. Daum, K. Lipka +1
We determine the charm-quark mass mc(mc) in the MS-bar scheme using measurements of charm production in deep-inelastic ep scattering at HERA in the kinematic range of photon virtua…
Heavy Flavours in DIS and Hadron Colliders: Working Group Summary
Katerina Lipka, Gennaro Corcella
The recent theory developments and latest experimental results on heavy-flavour production in Deep Inelastic Scattering and at hadron colliders are summarized. Models of heavy quar…