Speaker
Dr
Valerio Bertone
(University of Oxford)
Description
APFEL is a numerical code specialized for PDF fits that provides a fast
and accurate solution of the DGLAP equations up to NNLO in QCD and LO
in QED. In addition to PDF evolution, APFEL also provides a module
that computes deep-inelastic scattering cross sections in several mass
schemes up to NNLO in QCD. In this contribution I will present the
most recent developments carried out in the APFEL framework. They
include: the implementation of the intrinsic charm contributions to
the FONLL structure functions, the computation of the polarized evolution
up to NNLO in QCD, the small-x resummed evolution up to NLL,
the implementation of the single-inclusive cross sections needed for the
determination of fragmentation functions (FFs). APFEL is currently
used by the NNPDF collaboration and is interfaced to the xFitter
public code and thus all these developments are or will be used to
improve the determination of PDFs and FFs.
Primary author
Dr
Valerio Bertone
(University of Oxford)
