HPC Module: LHAPDF

Synopsis

Adds the LHAPDF libraries to your environment.

About This Software
Official Site	https://lhapdf.hepforge.org
Tags	Physics

Installed Versions

Version	Install Date	Default?
6.5.4	2023-04-03
6.5.4-gcc10.2.0	2023-04-03
6.5.4-gcc10.2.0-py39	2023-06-21

Description

LHAPDF is the standard tool for evaluating parton distribution functions (PDFs) in high-energy physics. PDFs encode the flavour and momentum structure of composite particles, such as protons, pions and nuclei; most cross-section calculations are based on parton-level matrix-elements which must be connected to the real interacting particles, hence PDFs are an essential ingredient of phenomenological and experimental studies at hadron and heavy-ion colliders (e.g. LHC, HERA, Tevatron, EIC, FCC) and in cosmic-ray physics.

Citation(s)

Please make sure to cite the following paper if you use LHAPDF6:

• "LHAPDF6: parton density access in the LHC precision era"
  Eur.Phys.J. C75 (2015) 3, 132
  http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.7420

An earlier write-up of progress on LHAPDF6 appeared in the Les Houches workshop proceedings:

• "New access to PDF data via LHAPDF6", by A. Buckley
  in "Les Houches 2013: Physics at TeV Colliders: Standard Model Working Group Report"
  http://arxiv.org/abs/1405.1067
  http://inspirehep.net/search?p=find+eprint+1405.1067

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