Recommendations for PDF usage in LHC predictions

Abstract

A short review of the currently available modern parton distribution functions (PDFs)and the theory predictions obtained using those PDFs for several benchmark processes at LHC, including Higgs boson production, is presented in this write-up. It includes the discussion on theory assumptions made in the determination procedure of PDFs and an impact on the differences in the obtained predictions, followed by the alternative to PDF4LHC recommendations for the usage of PDF sets for theory predictions at the LHC.

Comments: 7 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in XXIV International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects (11-15 April, 2016, DESY Hamburg, Germany) proceedings