LHC data and its impact on nCTEQ15 PDFs

Abstract

The LHC heavy ion data for W/Z production can provide new incisive information on the PDFs. This data is sensitive to the heavier quark flavors (strange and charm) in a high energy kinematic region; this can facilitate the determination of PDFs in the small x region where previous data was limited. At present, the flavor separation of the proton PDFs is dependent on DIS data from nuclear targets. Therefore, improved nuclear corrections can also yield enhanced flavor determination of both the proton and nuclear PDFs.

arXiv comment6 pages, 6 figures. 25th International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Topics (DIS 2017). PoS(DIS2017)204

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