NNPDF
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| Developer(s) | The NNPDF Collaboration |
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| Stable release |
2.3
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| Type | Particle physics |
| Website | nnpdf |
NNPDF is the acronym used to identify the parton distribution functions from the NNPDF Collaboration. NNPDF parton densities are extracted from global fits to data based on a combination of a Monte Carlo method for uncertainty estimation and the use of neural networks as basic interpolating functions.
The NNPDF approach can be divided into four main steps:
The set of PDF sets (trained neural networks) provides a representation of the underlying PDF probability density, from which any statistical estimator can be computed.
The image below shows the gluon at small-x from the the NNPDF1.0 analysis, available through the LHAPDF interface
The NNPDF1.0 gluon
The NNPDF releases are summarised in the following table:
All PDF sets are available through the LHAPDF interface.
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