2019/09/08 by Alekhin, S., Bluemlein, J., Moch, S.
#FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1909.03533
We present an updated version of the ABMP16 nucleon PDFs, which is tuned by using recent precise data on W- and Z/γ^*-production at the LHC and the final HERA data on DIS c- and b-quark production and by imposing a stringent Q2-cut on the inclusive DIS data in order to avoid the impact of higher twist terms at small x at HERA. The new W- and Z-boson production data, in particular the updated version of the ATLAS data at the c.m.s. energy 7 TeV, are well accommodated into the present fit. The strange sea distribution obtained is consistent with the average of the up and down quark ones at small x. However, it is still suppressed with respect to the non-strange one by a factor of ∼ 0.5 at moderate x. The small-x gluon distribution is enhanced as compared to the previous ABMP16 fit, in line with updated data on the DIS c-quark production. Finally, a good description of the non-resonant γ^*/Z-production data, which are included into the ABM analysis for the first time, is achieved provided the photon-initiated lepton pair production is taken into account.