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LHAPDF6: parton density access in the LHC precision era

Buckley, Andy, Ferrando, James, Lloyd, Stephen et al.

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The Fortran LHAPDF library has been a long-term workhorse in particle physics, providing standardised access to parton density functions for experimental and phenomenological purposes alike, following on from the venerable PDFLIB package.

During Run 1 of the LHC, however, several fundamental limitations in LHAPDF's design have became deeply problematic, restricting the usability of the library for important physics-study procedures and providing dangerous avenues by which to silently obtain incorrect results.
In this paper we present the LHAPDF 6 library, a ground-up re-engineering of the PDFLIB/LHAPDF paradigm for PDF access which removes all limits on use of concurrent PDF sets, massively reduces static memory requirements, offers improved CPU performance, and fixes fundamental bugs in multi-set access to PDF metadata.
The new design, restricted for now to interpolated PDFs, uses centralised numerical routines and a powerful cascading metadata system to decouple software releases from provision of new PDF data and allow completely general parton content.

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H. Plothow-Besch, PDFLIB: A Library of all available parton density functions of the nucleon, the pion and the photon and the corresponding alpha-s calculations
1993
Earlier work this paper cites.
T. van Ritbergen, J. A. M. Vermaseren, and S. A. Larin, The Four loop beta function in quantum chromodynamics
1997
Earlier work this paper cites.
K. G. Chetyrkin, B. A. Kniehl, and M. Steinhauser, Strong coupling constant with flavor thresholds at four loops in the modified minimal-subtraction scheme
1997
Earlier work this paper cites.
CTEQ Collaboration
2000
Earlier work this paper cites.
G. Corcella, I. Knowles, G. Marchesini, S. Moretti, K. Odagiri, et al., HERWIG 6: An Event generator for hadron emission reactions with interfering gluons (including supersymmetric processes)
2001
Earlier work this paper cites.
S. Frixione and B. R. Webber, Matching NLO QCD computations and parton shower simulations
2002
Earlier work this paper cites.
J. Pumplin, D. Stump, J. Huston, H. Lai, P. M. Nadolsky, et al., New generation of parton distributions with uncertainties from global QCD analysis
2002
Earlier work this paper cites.
O. S. Bruning, P. Collier, P. Lebrun, S. Myers, R. Ostojic, et al., LHC Design Report. 1. The LHC Main Ring
2004
Earlier work this paper cites.
A. Martin, R. Roberts, W. Stirling, and R. Thorne, Parton distributions incorporating QED contributions
2005
Earlier work this paper cites.
E. L. Berger, P. M. Nadolsky, F. I. Olness, and J. Pumplin, Light gluino constituents of hadrons and a global analysis of hadron scattering data
2005
Earlier work this paper cites.
K. G. Chetyrkin, J. H. Kuhn, and C. Sturm, QCD decoupling at four loops
2006
Earlier work this paper cites.
T. Sjostrand, S. Mrenna, and P. Z. Skands, PYTHIA 6.4 Physics and Manual
2006
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J. M. Campbell, J. Huston, and W. Stirling, Hard Interactions of Quarks and Gluons: A Primer for LHC Physics
2007
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T. Sjostrand, S. Mrenna, and P. Z. Skands, A Brief Introduction to PYTHIA 8.1
Original
2008
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M. Bahr, S. Gieseke, M. Gigg, D. Grellscheid, K. Hamilton, et al., Herwig++ Physics and Manual
Original
2008
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