Approximate N3LO PDFs: Updates and Consequences for Phenomenology
T. Cridge*,
L.A. Harland-Lang and
R.S. Thorne*: corresponding author
Pre-published on:
December 15, 2025
Published on:
January 28, 2026
Abstract
We present updates to the MSHT approximate N3LO PDFs focusing upon recent developments, examining the impacts of newly determined splitting function and transition matrix element calculations, performed since the public MSHT20aN3LO PDF set was released. We observe only small changes to the output PDFs, at most of similar size to their quoted uncertainties and typically notably less. Finally, we also present the impacts on the PDF luminosities, where changes are generally further reduced.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.512.0027
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