Towards N${}^3$LO PDFs and their implications for Higgs production cross-sections

Abstract

We review the recently published PDF sets MSHT20xNNPDF40_an3lo and MSHT20xNNPDF40_an3lo_qed, which have been obtained by combining the approximate N${}^3$LO (aN${}^3$LO) sets of parton distributions (PDFs) from the MSHT20 and NNPDF4.0 series. We investigate the impact of the most recent results on N${}^3$LO splitting functions onto the two PDF sets. Finally, we demonstrate the impact of N${}^3$LO PDFs on the computation of Higgs production cross-sections at the LHC.

Comments: 4 pages, 2 figures. Contribution to the 2025 QCD session of the 59th Rencontres de Moriond