CTEQ is a multi-institutional collaboration devoted to a broad program
of research projects and cooperative enterprises in high-energy
physics centered on Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) and its implications in all
areas of the Standard Model and beyond.
The Collaboration consists of theorists and experimentalists at 23
universities (Baylor, Florida State, Hampton, Illinois, Illinois Institute of
Technology, Iowa State, Joseph Fourier, Karlsruhe,
Michigan State, Muenster, Northwestern, Oregon, Penn State, Pittsburgh,
Rochester, Southern
Methodist, SUNY Buffalo, SUNY Stony Brook, Taipei, Tubingen,
U.C. Riverside, Washington, Witwatersrand)
and 6 national laboratories (Argonne, CERN, Fermilab, Jefferson, SLAC, IN2P3 [France]).
The Project's program includes:
- A wide range of research projects to
advance the quantitative predictions of Quantum Chromodynamics,
emphasizing collaboration between theorists and experimentalists;
- An annual CTEQ Summer School on QCD
Analysis and Phenomenology to promote the understanding of QCD and
its proper use among young physicists, especially experimentalists;
- An on-going comprehensive global QCD analysis project to test the
accuracy of QCD and to extract the universal parton
distribution functions needed in calculations of all high
energy physics processes;
- A Handbook of Perturbative QCD which
will provide an up-to-date reference for the entire field; and
- Periodic topical Workshops to address
current outstanding problems in QCD research for active working
high-energy physicists.
The CTEQ research projects and the CTEQ Summer Workshop & Conference are supported by the
National Science Foundation and the
Department of Energy
through grants to the universities and laboratories of CTEQ members.
