The impact of CMS inclusive jet data on parton distribution functions and their uncertainties

Abstract

It is well known that the jet production data at LHC provide important constraints on the medium and large-[Formula: see text] gluon parton distribution function (PDF), as well as on the large-[Formula: see text] sea quarks. In this work, we study the impact of recent CMS measurements for the inclusive jet production at center-of-mass energy of [Formula: see text][Formula: see text]=[Formula: see text]13 TeV on the PDFs and their uncertainties. To this aim, with use of the FastNLO and xFitter framework, we apply the parton distribution re-weighting procedure to study the impact of CMS data on two NLO modern CT14 and MMHT PDF sets. As a result, we found that the fit quality obtained using both of these PDF sets is very good. Moreover, the CMS data can impact both the central values and uncertainties of some PDFs especially at low and large [Formula: see text] regions. Overall, it is indicated that the CT14 PDFs compared with the MMHT ones are more affected. We emphasis that the inclusion of these data in a new global analysis of PDFs can improve the determination of the gluon and quark PDFs at both low and large [Formula: see text] regions.