CTEQ-TEA parton distribution functions and HERA Run I and II combined data
Sep 26, 2016
12 pages
Published in:
- Phys.Rev.D 95 (2017) 3, 034003
- Published: Feb 6, 2017
e-Print:
- 1609.07968 [hep-ph]
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Abstract: (APS)
We analyze the impact of the recent HERA Run I+II combination of inclusive deep inelastic scattering cross-section data on the CT14 global analysis of parton distribution functions (PDFs). New PDFs at next-to-leading order and next-to-next-to-leading order, called CT14HERA2, are obtained by a refit of the CT14 data ensembles, in which the HERA Run I combined measurements are replaced by the new HERA Run I+II combination. The CT14 functional parametrization of PDFs is flexible enough to allow good descriptions of different flavor combinations, so we use the same parametrization for CT14HERA2 but with an additional shape parameter for describing the strange quark PDF. We find that the HERA I+II data can be fit reasonably well, and both CT14 and CT14HERA2 PDFs can describe equally well the non-HERA data included in our global analysis. Because the CT14 and CT14HERA2 PDFs agree well within the PDF errors, we continue to recommend CT14 PDFs for the analysis of LHC Run 2 experiments.Note:
- 19 pages, 6 figures and 3 tables
- interpretation of experiments: DESY HERA Stor
- H1
- ZEUS
- deep inelastic scattering: inclusive reaction
- parton: distribution function
- quantum chromodynamics: correction
- correction: higher-order
- higher-order: 1
- higher-order: 2
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