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LHAPDF the Les Houches Accord PDF Interface


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LHAPDF provides a unified and easy to use interface to modern PDF sets. It is designed to work not only with individual PDF sets but also with the more recent multiple "error" sets. It can be viewed as the successor to PDFLIB, incorporating many of the older sets found in the latter, including pion and photon PDFs. In LHAPDF the computer code and input parameters/grids are separated thus allowing more easy updating and no limit to the expansion possibilities. The code and data sets can be downloaded together or inidivually as desired. From version 4.1 onwards a configuration script facilitates the installation of LHAPDF.

Contents:

Installing LHAPDF.
List of all available PDF sets.
On-line user manual.
PDF set numbers
A wrapper for C++.
A wrapper for C++. (old version)
A little bit of theory.
Description of the .LHpdf files
Description of the .LHgrid files
PDFsets.index
How to join the announcement mailing list.
How to email the developers of LHAPDF
View the Subversion repository.
Tracker/Wiki
ChangeLog.

Publications/LHAPDF reference
Name conflicts with CERNLIB

User supplied Tips & Tricks:

1) Importing lhapdf-wrapper into ROOT

Patches: patches to 5.7.0

Downloads:

Latest released version (16/02/2009):
  5.7.0 (full): lhapdf-5.7.0.tar.gz
  5.7.0 (nopdf): lhapdf-5.7.0-nopdf.tar.gz
  Extra PDF sets
Old versions:
  5.6.0 (full): lhapdf-5.6.0.tar.gz
  5.5.1 (full): lhapdf-5.5.1.tar.gz
  5.5.0 (full): lhapdf-5.5.0.tar.gz
  5.4.1 (full): lhapdf-5.4.1.tar.gz
  5.4.0 (full): lhapdf-5.4.0.tar.gz
  5.3.1 (full): lhapdf-5.3.1.tar.gz(patches)
  5.3.0 (full): lhapdf-5.3.0.tar.gz(patches)
  5.2.3 (full): lhapdf-5.2.3.tar.gz
  5.2.2 (full): lhapdf-5.2.2.tar.gz
  5.2.1 (full): lhapdf-5.2.1.tar.gz
  5.2 (full): lhapdf-5.2.tar.gz
  5.1 (full): lhapdf-5.1.tar.gz
  5.0.0 (full): lhapdf-5.0.0.tar.gz
  4.2 (full): lhapdf-4.2.tar.gz
  4.1.1 (full): lhapdf-4.1.1.tar.gz
  4.0 (full): lhapdf-4.0.tar.gz
  3.0 (full): lhapdf-3.0.tar.gz
  2.0 (full): lhapdf-2.0.tar.gz

NOTE: Details of the changes in the different versions can be found in the ChangeLog.


LHAPDF is maintained by Mike Whalley and Andy Buckley at Durham University (UK)
email: lhapdf@projects.hepforge.org phone: +44-191-334-3807 fax:+44-191-334-3658
Last updated: Wed May 20 14:41:22 2009