We present the new CTEQ-TEA global analysis of quantum chromodynamics (QCD). In this analysis, parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the nucleon are determined within the Hessian method at the next-to-next-to leading order (NNLO) in perturbative QCD, based on the most recent measurements from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and a variety of world collider data. Because of difficulties in fitting both the ATLAS 7 and 8 TeV W and Z vector boson production cross section data, we present two families of PDFs, named CT18 and CT18Z PDFs, respectively, without and with the ATLAS 7 TeV W and Z measurements. We study the impact of the CT18 family of PDFs on the theoretical predictions of standard candle cross sections at the LHC.
@article{arxiv.1908.11238,
title = {New CTEQ Global Analysis with High Precision Data from the LHC},
author = {Tie-Jiun Hou and Keping Xie and Jun Gao and Sayipjamal Dulat and Marco Guzzi and T. J. Hobbs and Joey Huston and Pavel Nadolsky and Jon Pumplin and Carl Schmidt and Ibrahim Sitiwaldi and Dan Stump and C. -P. Yuan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.11238},
year = {2019}
}