The effects of combined HERA and recent Tevatron W - > lepton neutrino charge asymmetry data on the MSTW PDFs

Details The effects of combined HERA and recent Tevatron W - > lepton neutrino charge asymmetry data on the MSTW PDFs The effects of combined HERA and recent Tevatron W - > lepton neutrino charge asymmetry data on the MSTW PDFs

2010-06-14

arxiv.org/abs/1006.2753v2

PoS DIS2010:052,2010

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High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

5 pages, 3 figures; to appear in the proceedings of DIS2010. Minor numerical correction to NNLO results presented in Section 1

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We examine the effect of including the `combined' HERA structure function data in the MSTW global fit for parton distribution functions (PDFs). The combined neutral-current HERA data have a significant, if not dramatic, effect, of up to 2--3% at NLO for Z boson and Higgs production at the Tevatron and LHC, and a generally slightly smaller effect, particularly on LHC processes, at NNLO. This is an amount comparable, or less than, the typical PDF uncertainties, and hence we do not intend to release an imminent update to the MSTW 2008 fit. We also investigate the consistency with the recent D0 data on electron and muon charge asymmetry from W decays and the direct CDF measurement of the W charge asymmetry. The D0 lepton charge asymmetry data imply a fairly large change to the down-quark distribution and/or large nuclear corrections to be applied when fitting to deuterium structure function data, while the CDF W charge asymmetry data are more consistent with the existing PDFs. However, it is difficult to reconcile all of the Tevatron W -> lepton neutrino charge asymmetry data sets with the fit, and to some extent, with each other.

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