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Parton distributions and the LHC: W and Z production
2000
European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields
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W and Z bosons will be produced copiously at the LHC proton-proton collider. We study the parton distribution dependence of the total production cross sections and rapidity distributions, paying particular attention to the uncertainties arising from uncertainties in the parton distributions themselves. Variations in the gluon, the strong coupling, the sea quarks and the overall normalisation are shown to lead to small but non-negligible variations in the cross section predictions. Ultimately,
doi:10.1007/s100520000324
fatcat:3wahkjrp7vcs7fyrthpymwvyzu