[LHAPDF-announce] LHAPDF V5.8.4 released

[Mike Whalley]

Dear LHAPDF user,

We are pleased to announce the release of version 5.8.4 of LHAPDF.  This
can be downloaded as usual from our website:

http://projects.hepforge.org/lhapdf/

or directly at:

http://www.hepforge.org/archive/lhapdf/lhapdf-5.8.4.tar.gz


This sub-version contains the following:

New PDF sets:
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CT10 - The latest sets from CTEQ (CT) comprising:
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CT10   (10800-10852) central set (0) plus 52 +/- error sets
CT10as (10860-10870) 11 sets alphas=0.113...0.123 (in steps of 0.001)
CT10w  (10900-10952) central set (0) plus 52 +/- error sets
CT10was(10960-10970) 11 sets alphas=0.113...0.123 (in steps of 0.001)
(the 'w' indicates the fit without the D0 Run-II asymmetry data)

MSTW2008 heavy quark variation sets
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23000-23040 MSTW2008lo68cl_nf3
23041-23080 MSTW2008lo90cl_nf3
23100-23140 MSTW2008lo68cl_nf4
23141-23180 MSTW2008lo90cl_nf4

23200-23240 MSTW2008nlo68cl_nf3
23241-23280 MSTW2008nlo90cl_nf3
23300-23340 MSTW2008nlo68cl_nf4
23341-23380 MSTW2008nlo90cl_nf4

23400-23414 MSTW2008nlo_mcrange
23420-23434 MSTW2008nlo_mcrange_nf3
23440-23454 MSTW2008nlo_mcrange_fixasmz
23460-23454 MSTW2008nlo_mcrange_fixasmz_nf3
23480-23486 MSTW2008nlo_mbrange
23490-23496 MSTW2008nlo_mbrange_nf4

23500-23540 MSTW2008nnlo68cl_nf3
23541-23580 MSTW2008nnlo90cl_nf3
23600-23640 MSTW2008nnlo68cl_nf4
23641-23680 MSTW2008nnlo90cl_nf4

23700-23714 MSTW2008nnlo_mcrange
23720-23734 MSTW2008nnlo_mcrange_nf3
23740-23754 MSTW2008nnlo_mcrange_fixasmz
23760-23754 MSTW2008nnlo_mcrange_fixasmz_nf3
23780-23786 MSTW2008nnlo_mbrange
23790-23796 MSTW2008nnlo_mbrange_nf4

ABKM 4 flavour sets
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(40780-40805) abkm09_4_nlo
(40810-40835) abkm09_4_nnlo
These add the 4 flavour fits to the already existing 3 and 5 flavour sets.

Latest EPS09 nuclear correction set
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These corrections are used along with a free proton set, selected in the
usual way,  with the call setlhaparm('EPS09') - also EPS09LO and
EPS09NLO.  In addition there are 15 +/- sets for uncertainties
used by setlhaparm('EPS09NLO,1') etc...


In addition there are several other fixes:
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1)  Fix to allow multiset initialization (up to 9 sets) with the 100 rep
NNPDF sets.  Multiset initialization for the 1000 rep sets is still not
allowed and now produces an error message and stops the execution.

2) Addition of the lhaglue numbers for all the sets in the NNPDF2.0
alphas variation.  Erroneously only the average sets (0) was allocated a
number. Also fix the lhaglue problem in accessing NNPDF2.0 in general by
number.

190000-190100 NNPDF20_as_0114
190200-190200 NNPDF20_as_0115
...
...
191600-191700 NNPDF20_as_0123
191800-191900 NNPDF20_as_0124

3) Fix to the alphas calculation in the HERAGRID sets

4) Slight changes to the abkm wrapper code to bring it in line with the
code on the abkm web page.

5) Correcting the abkm09 numbering in the PDFsets.index file.


A full list of changes can be seen in the ChangeLog on the LHAPDF web page.

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Any problems, as usual send them to lhapdf at projects.hepforge.org

Best regards,

Mike Whalley and Andy Buckley*

IPPP, Durham University, UK

*Andy is now at the Particle Physics Experiment Group, University of
Edinburgh