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Small-X Resummation in PDF Fits and Future Prospects
Small-X Resummation in PDF Fits and Future Prospects
Small-X Resummation in PDF Fits and Future Prospects
Marco Bonvini
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Fig. 1. The gluon PDF obtained from a fixed-order fit and from a fit with resumma-
tion. The left plot show the NNPDF determination [24] from a global dataset. The
right plot shows a determination from HERA data only [26] and the comparison
of different choices of subleading contributions in the resummed prediction.
ratio to NNLO
1.1 1.1
1 1
0.9 0.9
0.8 0.8
0.7 0.7
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M [GeV] M [GeV]
gg lumi at Ecm = 13 TeV for M = 30 GeV qg lumi at Ecm = 13 TeV for M = 30 GeV
1.6 1.6
NNLO PDFs NNLO PDFs
NNLO+NLLx PDFs NNLO+NLLx PDFs
1.4 1.4
ratio to NNLO
ratio to NNLO
1.2 1.2
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0.8 0.8
0.6 0.6
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Y Y
ratio to NNLO
1.1 1.1
1 1
0.9 0.9
0.8 0.8
0.7 0.7
101 102 103 104 101 102 103 104
M [GeV] M [GeV]
gg lumi at Ecm = 100 TeV for M = 100 GeV qg lumi at Ecm = 100 TeV for M = 100 GeV
1.6 1.6
NNLO PDFs NNLO PDFs
NNLO+NLLx PDFs NNLO+NLLx PDFs
1.4 1.4
ratio to NNLO
ratio to NNLO
1.2 1.2
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0.8 0.8
0.6 0.6
-6 -4 -2 0 2 4 6 -6 -4 -2 0 2 4 6
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Fig. 3. Same as Fig. 2 but for a future collider of 100 TeV energy. The lower plots
are for invariant mass M = 100 GeV.
Heavy quark pair production at LHC 13 TeV, using NNPDF31sx Heavy quark pair production at LHC 13 TeV, using NNPDF31sx
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LO m = 4.6 GeV LO m = 4.6 GeV
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LO+LL with FO PDFs pt = 2 GeV LO+LL with Res PDFs pt = 2 GeV
5x107 NLO+LL with FO PDFs 5x107 NLO+LL with Res PDFs
Q2 dσ/dY/dpt2 [pb]
Q2 dσ/dY/dpt2 [pb]
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3x107 3x107
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considered, and the effect of the two resummations is additive. The two
resummations are more intimately connected at differential level, so future
work in the direction of resumming both types of logarithms in differential
observables is called for.
As far as small-x resummation is concerned, recently the formalism in-
troduced in Refs. [20–22] has been extended to differential distributions in
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Ref. [29]. There, the process of heavy quark pair production has been con-
sidered as a representative application of the formalism. In figure 4 we
report the result of Ref. [29] for the production of a bottom quark pair at
the LHC. In particular the plot shows the double differential distribution in
rapidity and transverse momentum of one of the produced bottom quarks,
plotted as a function of the rapidity and for fixed transverse momentum
pt = 2 GeV. The left plot shows the effect of resummation in the coefficient
function only, as both fixed-order and resummed results are obtained with
the same (fixed-order) PDFs. We see that resummation improves the con-
vergence pattern of the perturbative expansion, with the resummed curves
at two adjacent orders being closer than the analogous results at fixed order.
In the right plot the resummed result is obtained using resummed PDFs,
that further increase the effect of resummation, as expected from figure 2.
This result shows that this process has the potential to give additional im-
portant constraints in PDF determination, but to describe it reliably small-x
resummation must be included.
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