LHC data and its impact on nCTEQ15 PDFs
Résumé
The LHC heavy ion data forW=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.