Speaker
Pavel Nadolsky
(Southern Methodist University)
Description
I review recent developments in the global QCD analysis by the CTEQ-TEA group that follows the public release of the new CT18 NNLO parton distributions last year [arXiv:1912.10053]. The role of LHC experiments at 7, 8, and 13 TeV in constraining the CT PDFs is discussed. Theoretical and methodological advancements aimed at obtaining reliable central PDFs and their uncertainties are reviewed, including NNLO corrections, advanced parametrization forms, small-x saturation scale, alternative tolerance definitions.
Primary authors
Pavel Nadolsky
(Southern Methodist University)
Tie-Jiun Hou
(Northeastern University)
Jun Gao
Keping Xie
(PITT PACC)
Tim Hobbs
(SMU)
Prof.
Marco Guzzi
(Kennesaw State U.)
Sayip Dulat
I. Sitiwaldi
Joey Huston
(Michigan State University)
Daniel Stump
Carl Schmidt
(Michigan State University)
C.-P. Yuan
(MSU)
