eprintid: 10205270 rev_number: 6 eprint_status: archive userid: 699 dir: disk0/10/20/52/70 datestamp: 2025-02-27 16:09:11 lastmod: 2025-02-27 16:09:11 status_changed: 2025-02-27 16:09:11 type: proceedings_section metadata_visibility: show sword_depositor: 699 creators_name: Thorne, RS creators_name: Cridge, T creators_name: Harland-Lang, L title: MSHT Updates 2024 ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B04 divisions: C06 divisions: F60 note: © Copyright owned by the author(s) under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.en). abstract: We present various recent updates related to the MSHT20 PDF sets, and particularly to the MSHT20 approximate N3LO (aN3LO) PDFs. These include an investigation of including either inclusive jet data or dijet data, the detailed treatment of Z pT data, and the impact on the gluon PDF in particular. We also very briefly summarize the determination of the strong coupling via an aN3LO global PDF fit, finding αS(MZ2 ) = 0.1170 ± 0.016, and of including QED corrections in the aN3LO analysis. Finally we consider the preliminary finding associated with the effect of improved knowledge of the N3LO splitting functions on the aN3LO PDFs. In particular we note a moderate impact on the gluon distribution, i.e. within the uncertainty, and a more limited impact on the gluon-gluon luminosity unless strong rapidity cuts are imposed. Hence, we conclude that while details of our aN3LO PDFs will change with more precise splitting functions, only relatively minor effects on predictions are likely to result. date: 2025 date_type: published publisher: PoS official_url: https://pos.sissa.it/ oa_status: green full_text_type: pub language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 2360267 lyricists_name: Thorne, Robert lyricists_id: RTHOR15 actors_name: Thorne, Robert actors_id: RTHOR15 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public pres_type: paper publication: Proceedings of Science volume: 469 pagerange: 1-5 event_title: DIS2024 book_title: Proceedings of Science citation: Thorne, RS; Cridge, T; Harland-Lang, L; (2025) MSHT Updates 2024. In: Proceedings of Science. (pp. pp. 1-5). PoS Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10205270/1/DIS2024proc.pdf