Precision PDFs: Developments and Challenges

27 Mar 2023, 16:45
30m
Big Ten A (MSU Kellogg Center)

Big Ten A

MSU Kellogg Center

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Thomas Cridge (DESY)

Description

"PDFs play a key role across a broad range of areas of contemporary and future interest, and so the need for precision PDFs is only increasing. I will therefore review the current status of precision PDF determination, including advances on the experimental, methodological and theoretical fronts, as illustrated by examples from across the field. In the course of this I will focus on recent developments and ongoing challenges as well as progress in confronting these issues, from dataset tensions through to the inclusion of N3LO effects and theoretical uncertainties and other state of the art developments. Finally, I will consider future challenges and opportunities to further our knowledge of PDFs and in turn proton structure.

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