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Global QCD Analysis and Hadron Collider Physics

Wu-Ki Tung
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The role of global QCD analysis of parton distribution functions (PDFs) in collider physics at the Tevatron and LHC is surveyed. Current status of PDF analyses are reviewed, emphasizing the uncertainties and the open issues. The stability of NLO QCD global analysis and its prediction on "standard candle" W/Z cross sections at hadron colliders are investigated. The importance of the precise measurement of various W/Z cross sections at the Tevatron in advancing our knowledge of PDFs, hence in enhancing the capabilities of making significant progress in W mass and top quark parameter measurements, as well as the discovery potentials of Higgs and New Physics at the Tevatron and LHC, is emphasized.

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Wu-Ki Tung. 2004-10-10. Global QCD Analysis and Hadron Collider Physics. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1896687%2010.1142%2Fs0217751x06031818

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