===== Impact of aN3LO PDFs on ggF PDF-TH uncertainty ===== ==== Comments ==== Pavel: will it be possible to compare the MSHT and NNPDF NNLO and aN3LO luminosities with the |y_X | < 2.5 cut? This is most relevant for the measurements. ---- === Settings === **Energies:** $\sqrt{s}= 7, 8, 13, \mathbf{13.6}, 14, 33, 100\ \mathrm{TeV}$ **PDF Sets:** ^ NNLO PDFs ^ aN3LO PDFs ^ | MSHT | MSHT | | NNPDF4.0 | NNPDF4.0 (prelim) | | PDF4LHC21 | | **Coefficient Function:** Always N3LO (even when using NNLO PDFs) **iHixs Runcard (defines defaults):** [[https://phystev.cnrs.fr/wiki/_media/2023:groups:smhiggs:ggf-an3lo:run3.txt|run3.card]] [[https://phystev.cnrs.fr/wiki/_media/2023:groups:smhiggs:ggf-an3lo:13.6_125.09_log.txt|log]] [[https://phystev.cnrs.fr/wiki/_media/2023:groups:smhiggs:ggf-an3lo:13.6_125.09_out.txt|out]] === 1. ggF Stacked Error Plots (iHixs) === Recreate plots similar to Fig. 2 in [[https://arxiv.org/pdf/1802.00827.pdf|iHixs]], showing only the uncertainties: * $\delta(PDF)$, * $\delta(PDF_{TH})$, * $\delta(\mathrm{scale})$ or (for aN3LO PDFs): * $\delta(PDF+PDF_{TH})$, * $\delta(\mathrm{scale})$. We will omit uncertainties not relevant to the study (namely $\delta(EW)$, $\delta(\alpha_s), \delta(1/m_t), \delta(t,b,c)$. Note that we can get away with varying both muR & muF instead of only muR (as recommended by MSHT20 aN3LO) since the muF variation is anyway tiny. see e.g. Fig. 2 (top) in [https://arxiv.org/pdf/2209.06138.pdf]. === 2. Cross Section Tables === Main production code is iHixs (validated on HTL with ggH and n3loxs). Produce tables with: * $\sigma$ (total cross section) * $\delta(\sigma)$ breakdown of the errors on the cross section (see Study 1 for details) Comments made by observing preliminary results presented in the initial session: The aN3LO/NNLO k-factor for MSHT ~0.98 and for NNPDF looked ~1 (warning: preliminary). The NNPDF NNLO result is above the MSHT result and so at aN3LO we may see an even larger disagreement. === 3. Gluon Lumi Comparison ($\sqrt{s}=13.6\ \mathrm{TeV}$) === Ratio plots for PDFs and Luminosities. ^ ^ Order ^ Sets ^ | $xg(x)$ | aN3LO/NNLO | MSHT/MSHT | | ::: | ::: | NNPDF/NNPDF | | $\mathcal{L}_{gg}$ | aN3LO/NNLO | MSHT/MSHT | | ::: | ::: | NNPDF/NNPDF | | $\mathcal{L}_{gg}$ | NNLO/NNLO | MSHT/PDF4LHC | | ::: | ::: | NNPDF/PDF4LHC | The luminosity plots should also be created with $|y_X| < 2.5$ to see the impact of the Higgs rapidity cut.