Speaker
Description
I will present a series of studies carried out by PDF groups on the impact of EIC pseudodata in constraining collinear PDFs at up to approximate N3LO in QCD. This will include the influence of inclusive EIC DIS neutral and charged current electron-proton data on the HERAPDF and MSHT global PDF determinations, as well as deuteron and positron data on CT global PDFs. For all cases studied, significant improvements in the PDF uncertainties are observed for several parton species. The consequences for LHC phenomenology will be discussed. In addition, I will outline an ongoing study into the potential of EIC data to constrain the strong coupling constant of QCD in conjunction with HERA and LHC data. These studies all serve to demonstrate the complementarity of the EIC and LHC programs for future analyses.
