TY  - JOUR
PB  - SciPost Foundation
DO  - 10.21468/SciPostPhysCore.6.2.040
TI  - STEP: A tool to perform tests of smoothness on differential distributions based on expansion of polynomials
PY  - 2023/06/01
UR  - https://www.scipost.org/SciPostPhysCore.6.2.040
JF  - SciPost Physics Core
JA  - SciPost Phys. Core
VL  - 6
IS  - 2
SP  - 040
A1  - Connor, Patrick
AU  - Žlebčík, Radek
AB  - We motivate and describe a method based on fits with polynomials to test the smoothness of differential distributions. As a demonstration, we apply the method to several measurements of inclusive jet double-differential cross section in the jet transverse momentum and rapidity at the Tevatron and LHC. This method opens new possibilities to test the quality of differential distributions used for the extraction of physics quantities such as the strong coupling.
ER  -

@Article{10.21468/SciPostPhysCore.6.2.040,
	title={{STEP: A tool to perform tests of smoothness on differential distributions based on expansion of polynomials}},
	author={Patrick L. S. Connor and Radek Žlebčík},
	journal={SciPost Phys. Core},
	volume={6},
	pages={040},
	year={2023},
	publisher={SciPost},
	doi={10.21468/SciPostPhysCore.6.2.040},
	url={https://scipost.org/10.21468/SciPostPhysCore.6.2.040},
}