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LHAPDF6: parton density access in the LHC precision era

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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. More than 200 PDF sets have been migrated from LHAPDF 5 to the new universal data format, via a stringent quality control procedure. LHAPDF 6 is supported by many Monte Carlo generators and other physics programs, in some cases via a full set of compatibility routines, and is recommended for the demanding PDF access needs of LHC Run 2 and beyond.

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A linear PDF model for Bayesian inference

hep-ph · 2025-07-22 · unverdicted · novelty 7.0

Presents a linear PDF parametrization from dimensionality-reduced neural network bases for efficient Bayesian inference, tested via multi-closure tests on synthetic deep inelastic scattering data.

RooAgent: An LLM Agent for Root-Based High Energy Physics Analysis

hep-ph · 2026-05-17 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

RooAgent provides an LLM agent interface that translates natural-language prompts into calls to PyROOT analysis functions for high energy physics tasks, with support for multiple AI backends and tested on ZH simulations and ATLAS open data.

An NLO-Matched Initial and Final State Parton Shower on a GPU

hep-ph · 2025-11-24 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0 · 2 refs

GAPS v2 is a GPU-accelerated parton shower for initial and final state emissions with NLO matching that achieves speed and energy performance on par with a 96-core CPU cluster for NLO Z production at the LHC.

Slepton pair production at next-to-leading power

hep-ph · 2025-10-08 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

Evaluates next-to-leading power threshold corrections for slepton pair production and finds them significant compared to leading power NLL terms, with underestimated scale errors for large masses.

Two component pseudo-Nambu-Goldstone-boson dark matter

hep-ph · 2026-04-14 · unverdicted · novelty 6.0

A two-component pNGB dark matter model in which two independent soft-breaking parameters control the mass splitting and enable conversion between the heavier and lighter components while suppressing direct detection rates.

Monte Carlo Event Generation with Continuous Normalizing Flows

hep-ph · 2026-04-03 · conditional · novelty 6.0

Continuous normalizing flows improve unweighting efficiency in Monte Carlo event generation for high-jet-multiplicity collider processes by factors up to 184, with wall-time gains of about ten when combined with coupling-layer flows.

Energy Correlators Resolving Proton Spin

hep-ph · 2025-09-22 · unverdicted · novelty 5.0

The work establishes a correspondence between spin-dependent energy correlators and polarized TMDs/NECs using SCET, yielding N3LL/N2LL predictions for correlation patterns in current and target fragmentation regions.

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