Parton Distributions for LHC

Abstract

I review the current status of the nucleon PDFs determined from global fits with emphasis on the impact of recent experimental data and the remaining theoretical challenges.

Contribution to the Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop 'Loops and Legs in Quantum Field Theory'', Wórlitz, Germany, April 2010

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• Parton distributions for the LHC
• New parton distributions for collider physics
• Thrust at N^3LL with Power Corrections and a Precision Global Fit for alphas(mZ)
• The PDF4LHC Working Group Interim Report
• Measurement of the electron charge asymmetry in ppbar->W+X->enu+X events at sqrt{s}=1.96 TeV
• Higher order QCD corrections to charged-lepton deep-inelastic scattering and global fits of parton distributions
• Improved formulation of global QCD analysis with zero-mass hard cross sections
• Update of the NNLO PDFs in the 3-, 4-, and 5-flavour scheme
• HERAPDF fits including $F_2$(charm) data
• The Effect of Variable Flavour Number Scheme Variations on PDFs and Cross Sections

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