LHAPDF the Les Houches Accord PDF Interface

LHAPDF publications

The original article describing the work of the Les Houches meeting in 2001 when LHAPDF was first conceived is:

W Giele et al.FERMILAB-CONF-02-410, Apr 2002. 152pp.
Contributed to Workshop on Physics at TeV Colliders, Les Houches, France, 21 May - 1 Jun 2001.
Published in *Les Houches 2001, Physics at TeV colliders* 275-426
e-Print Archive: hep-ph/0204316

A detailed description of LHAPDF and its development is given in the proceedings of the HERA-LHC workshop:

M R Whalley (Durham U.), D Bourilkov, R C Group (Florida U.). Aug 2005,8pp
Contributed to HERA and the LHC: A Workshop on the Implications of HERA and LHC Physics
(Startup Meeting, CERN, 26-27 March 2004; Midterm Meeting, CERN, 11-13 October 2004), Hamburg, Germany, 21-24 Mar 2005.
e-Print Archive: hep-ph/0508110

An article entitled "LHAPDF: PDF use from the Tevatron to the LHC" describes using LHAPDF:

D Bourilkov, R C Group, M R Whalley (Florida U. & Durham U.) . May 2006. 8pp.
Contributed to TeV4LHC Workshop - 4th meeting, Batavia, Illinois, 20-22 Oct 2005.
e-Print Archive: hep-ph/0605240

Refering to LHAPDF in a paper

If you need to refer to LHAPDF we suggest you use either/both the web address (http://hepforge.cedar.ac.uk/lhapdf/) or the HERA-LHC article hep-ph/0508110 which gives the most complete description.

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