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Illuminating the photon content of the proton within a global PDF analysis
by Valerio Bertone, Stefano Carrazza, Nathan P. Hartland, Juan Rojo
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| Authors (as registered SciPost users): | Stefano Carrazza |
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| Preprint Link: | https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.07053v3 (pdf) |
| Date accepted: | May 29, 2018 |
| Date submitted: | May 25, 2018, 2 a.m. |
| Submitted by: | Stefano Carrazza |
| Submitted to: | SciPost Physics |
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| Academic field: | Physics |
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| Approach: | Theoretical |
Abstract
Precision phenomenology at the LHC requires accounting for both higher-order QCD and electroweak corrections as well as for photon-initiated subprocesses. Building upon the recent NNPDF3.1 fit, in this work the photon content of the proton is determined within a global analysis supplemented by the LUXqed constraint relating the photon PDF to lepton-proton scattering structure functions: NNPDF3.1luxQED. The uncertainties on the resulting photon PDF are at the level of a few percent, with photons carrying up to 0.5% of the proton's momentum. We study the phenomenological implications of NNPDF3.1luxQED at the LHC for Drell-Yan, vector boson pair, top quark pair, and Higgs plus vector boson production. We find that photon-initiated contributions can be significant for many processes, leading to corrections of up to 20%. Our results represent a state-of-the-art determination of the partonic structure of the proton including its photon component.
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Published as SciPost Phys. 5, 008 (2018)