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.
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@article{arxiv.1712.08199,
title = {LHC data and its impact on nCTEQ15 PDFs},
author = {D. B. Clark and E. Godat and T. Jezo and C. Keppel and K. Kovarik and A. Kusina and F. Lyonnet and J. G. Morfin and F. I. Olness and J. F. Owens and I. Schienbein and J. Y. Yu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.08199},
year = {2017}
}
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6 pages, 6 figures. 25th International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Topics (DIS 2017). PoS(DIS2017)204