[LHAPDF-announce] LHAPDF 6.1.5 release, plus paper and MMHT2014 and JR14 PDF sets

[Andy Buckley]

Dear LHAPDF users,

We are pleased to announce a little Christmas* present: LHAPDF version
6.1.5. This version adds improved extrapolation outside PDF grids,
several new and improved Fortran functions for compatibility and
improved functionality, and a bugfix in handling of parton flavour
information in the PDF grid format. Error checking and reporting have
also been further improved.

This version is available for download immediately from the LHAPDF
website at http://lhapdf.hepforge.org/

At the same time, we present (at last!) a proper write-up of LHAPDF6:
http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.7420  This will shortly be submitted for
publication; please make sure to cite it if you use LHAPDF either
directly or indirectly (e.g. via an MC event generator).

Finally, the MMHT2014 and JR14 PDF sets are now available to download
from the LHAPDF website and from
/afs/cern.ch/sw/lcg/external/lhapdfsets/current/ on AFS. The CVMFS area
will be synchronised shortly. We now have 347 validated PDF sets in the
LHAPDF6 collection, and hope to approve more shortly.

Best wishes, season's greetings, and all the best for 2015!
Andy & the LHAPDF6 team

[*] Or festival of your choosing...

-- 
Dr Andy Buckley, Royal Society University Research Fellow
Particle Physics Expt Group, University of Glasgow / PH Dept, CERN