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Response to "Parton distributions need representative sampling"

We respond to the criticism raised by Courtoy et al., in which the faithfulness of the NNPDF4.0 sampling is questioned and an under-estimate of the NNPDF4.0 PDF uncertainties is implied. We list, correct, and clarify in detail a number of inaccurate or misleading claims that are made in this Referen...

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Autores principales: Ball, Richard D., Cruz-Martinez, Juan, Del Debbio, Luigi, Forte, Stefano, Kassabov, Zahari, Nocera, Emanuele R., Rojo, Juan, Stegeman, Roy, Ubiali, Maria
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2022
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Acceso en línea:http://cds.cern.ch/record/2853390
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Sumario:We respond to the criticism raised by Courtoy et al., in which the faithfulness of the NNPDF4.0 sampling is questioned and an under-estimate of the NNPDF4.0 PDF uncertainties is implied. We list, correct, and clarify in detail a number of inaccurate or misleading claims that are made in this Reference. Specifically, we explain and explicitly demonstrate why the central value of the PDF distribution does not generally coincide with the absolute minimum of the $\chi^{2}$ to the data. We examine some PDFs that have been constructed in the above study and claimed to be "good solutions": we show that similar PDFs are found with the NNPDF methodology, but with very low probability.