Impact of PDF uncertainties at large x on heavy boson production

Details Impact of PDF uncertainties at large x on heavy boson production Impact of PDF uncertainties at large x on heavy boson production

2011-10-25

arxiv.org/abs/1110.5398v1

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

22 pages, 9 figures

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We explore the sensitivity of W and Z boson production in hadronic collisions to uncertainties in parton distribution functions (PDFs) at large x arising from uncertainties in nuclear corrections when using deuterium data in global QCD fits. The W and Z differential cross sections show increasing influence of nuclear corrections at high boson rapidities, particularly for the d quark, which is diluted somewhat in the decay lepton rapidity distributions. The effects of PDF uncertainties on heavy W' and Z' bosons beyond the Standard Model become progressively more important for larger boson masses or rapidities, both in p-p collisions at the LHC and in p-pbar scattering at the Tevatron.

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