2-9 July 2014
Valencia, Spain
Europe/Madrid timezone

Hessian PDF reweighting meets the Bayesian methods

4 Jul 2014, 13:10
20m
Sala 6+7 ()

Sala 6+7

Oral presentation Heavy Ion Physics Heavy Ions

Speaker

Dr. Maria Zurita (University of Santiago de Compostela)

Description

We discuss the Hessian PDF reweighting - a technique intended to estimate the effects that new measurements have on a set of PDFs. The method stems straightforwardly from considering new data in a usual χ2 fit and it naturally incorporates also non-zero values for the tolerance, Δχ2>1. In comparison to the contemporary Bayesian reweighting techniques, there is no need to generate large ensembles of PDF Monte-Carlo replicas, and the observables need to be evaluated only with the central and the error sets of the original PDFs. In spite of the apparently rather different methodologies, we show that the Hessian and the Bayesian techniques are actually one and the same, but only if the Δχ2 criterion is properly included to the Bayesian likelihood function that is a simple exponential. We illustrate the situation by considering a simplified example and the case of inclusive jets at the LHC. We also apply the method to proton-lead and heavy ion (lead-lead) collisions to explore their constraining power on nuclear parton distributions.

Primary author

Dr. Maria Zurita (University of Santiago de Compostela)

Co-author

Dr. Hannu Paukkunen (University of Jyväskylä)

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