Speaker
Dr.
Juan Rojo
(University of Oxford)
Description
PDFs have been an essential ingredient for Run I
phenomenology, and will be so even more at the upcoming Run II. Many
crucial LHC analysis benefit from improved PDFs, from precision Standard
Model measurements, like the W mass determination, and Higgs boson
characterization to BSM searches. NNPDF3.0 is the new forthcoming PDF
release from the NNPDF Collaboration, a major upgrade that accounts for
recent progress in experimental constraints, theory calculations and
methodological improvements. In this talk I will present in detail the
new NNPDF3.0 set, and discuss the improvements in new experimental data
such as the HERA-II structure functions, ATLAS and CMS jets, CMS
W+charm, ATLAS and CMS Drell-Yan production and top quark production,
the improved theory calculations such as approximate NNLO K-factors for
jets and electroweak effects for Drell-Yan data, and the brand-new
fitting methodology with the C++ rewriting of the code and fitting
strategy validated on closure tests. Finally I explore the
phenomenological implications of NNPDF3.0 for the LHC Run II
Primary author
Dr.
Juan Rojo
(University of Oxford)
