CIPANP 2018 - Thirteenth Conference on the Intersections of Particle and Nuclear Physics

Unpolarised Parton Distribution Functions Today: Needs, Achievements and Challenges

Jun 1, 2018, 2:00 PM

30m

North Foyer | Joshua Tree Room (Hyatt Regency Indian Wells Conference Center)

Parallel PGDNN Parton and Gluon Distributions in Nucleons and Nuclei

Speaker

Dr Emanuele Roberto Nocera (Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics)

Description

I review recent progress in the determination of the unpolarised parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the proton. I focus on how the needs for accuracy and precision in current and future programs at high-energy accelerators are addressed in contemporary PDF sets. I discuss the impact on PDFs of the uncertainties coming from the data, the theory and the methodology, and I outline some corresponding challenges in their assessment.

Presentation materials

Slides

5-0-NOCERA_CIPANP_PDFs.pdf