New generation of parton distributions with uncertainties from global QCD analysis

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 325-371

  Pumplin, Jonathan ^a   Stump, Daniel Robert ^a   Huston, Joey ^a   Lai, Hung Liang ^a,b   Nadolsky, Pavel ^a,c   Tung, Wu Ki ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MINGHSIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^c SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Deep Inelastic Scattering; Hadronic Colliders; Parton Model; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 23044461017     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2002/07/012     Document Type: Article

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