Research Article

High Order QCD Predictions for Inclusive Production of Bosons in Collisions at  TeV

Table 4

Predicted fiducial cross section numbers with NNPDF 3.0 with NNLO QCD corrections at 8 TeV and 13 TeV center of mass energies. All numbers are in units of pb. Relative uncertainties are expressed in parentheses.

8 TeV13 TeV
(pb) (pb) (pb) (pb)

4367.92916.96458.24702.5
PDF uncertainty 90.8 (2.07%)61.9 (2.12%)126.7 (1.96%)104.8 (2.22%)
Scale uncertainty 14.2 (0.32%)8.0 (0.27%)47.7 (0.74%)34.0 (0.72%)
uncertainty 42.2 (0.96%)32.2 (1.10%)68.9 (1.06%)52.5 (1.11%)
Total uncertainty 101.1 (2.31%)70.2 (2.40%)151.9 (2.35%)122.0 (2.59%)