Parton distribution functions and benchmark cross sections at NNLO
Abstract
We present a determination of parton distribution functions (ABM11) and the strong coupling constant alphas at next-to-leading order and next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in QCD based on world data for deep-inelastic scattering and fixed-target data for the Drell-Yan process. The analysis is performed in the fixed-flavor number scheme for nf=3,4,5 and uses the MSbar-scheme for alphas and the heavy-quark masses. At NNLO we obtain the value alphas(MZ) = 0.1134 +- 0.0011. The fit results are used to compute benchmark cross sections at hadron colliders to NNLO accuracy and to compare to data from the LHC.
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