Speaker
Fredrick Olness
(SMU)
Description
As we strive for higher precision Standard Model predictions, a
detailed knowledge of the PDFs is critical to interpret hadronic
processes at LHC and EIC. New data from both proton and heavy ion
beams can impose improved PDF constraints, as well as provide insights
as to the optimal means to organize the QCD expansion. The recently
released updates of the nCTEQ15 nPDFs reflect some of these advances.
These efforts, together with complementary approaches such as Lattice
QCD, will contribute toward incisive comparisons of data with theory
as we validate our understanding of the Standard Model and search for
deviations which might signal evidence of “new physics.”
Primary author
Fredrick Olness
(SMU)
