The structure of the proton in the LHC precision era

J Gao, L Harland-Lang, J Rojo - Physics Reports, 2018 - Elsevier
We review recent progress in the determination of the parton distribution functions (PDFs) of
the proton, with emphasis on the applications for precision phenomenology at the Large …

[PDF][PDF] Parton distributions from high-precision collider data: NNPDF Collaboration

RD Ball, V Bertone, S Carrazza, LD Debbio… - The European Physical …, 2017 - Springer
We present a new set of parton distributions, NNPDF3. 1, which updates NNPDF3. 0, the first
global set of PDFs determined using a methodology validated by a closure test. The update …

The CMS trigger system

CMS collaboration - arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.02366, 2016 - arxiv.org
This paper describes the CMS trigger system and its performance during Run 1 of the LHC.
The trigger system consists of two levels designed to select events of potential physics …

Parton distributions in the LHC era: MMHT 2014 PDFs

LA Harland-Lang, AD Martin, P Motylinski… - The European Physical …, 2015 - Springer
We present LO, NLO and NNLO sets of parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the proton
determined from global analyses of the available hard scattering data. These MMHT2014 …

Parton distributions for the LHC Run II

RD Ball, V Bertone, S Carrazza, CS Deans… - Journal of High Energy …, 2015 - Springer
A bstract We present NNPDF3. 0, the first set of parton distribution functions (PDFs)
determined with a methodology validated by a closure test. NNPDF3. 0 uses a global …

CT10 next-to-next-to-leading order global analysis of QCD

J Gao, M Guzzi, J Huston, HL Lai, Z Li, P Nadolsky… - Physical Review D, 2014 - APS
We present next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) parton distribution functions (PDFs) from
the CTEQ-TEA group. The CT10NNLO PDF fit is based on essentially the same global data …

Top-pair production and decay at NLO matched with parton showers

JM Campbell, RK Ellis, P Nason, E Re - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2015 - Springer
A bstract We present a next-to-leading order (NLO) calculation of\(t\overline {t}\) production
in hadronic collisions interfaced to shower generators according to the POWHEG method …

[PDF][PDF] Parton distributions with small-x resummation: evidence for BFKL dynamics in HERA data

RD Ball, V Bertone, M Bonvini, S Marzani… - The European Physical …, 2018 - Springer
We present a determination of the parton distribution functions of the proton in which NLO
and NNLO fixed-order calculations are supplemented by NLL x small-x resummation. Deep …

Handbook of vectorlike quarks: Mixing and single production

JA Aguilar-Saavedra, R Benbrik, S Heinemeyer… - Physical Review D …, 2013 - APS
We obtain constraints on the mixing of vectorlike quarks coupling predominantly to the third
generation. We consider all (seven) relevant types of vectorlike quarks, individually. The …

The CMS trigger system

V Khachatryan, AM Sirunyan, A Tumasyan… - Journal of …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS)[1] is a multipurpose detector designed for the precision
measurement of leptons, photons, and jets, among other physics objects, in proton-proton as …