Unbiased determination of the proton structure function F2 p with faithful uncertainty estimation

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn , Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1973-1992

  Del Debbio, Luigi ^a   Forte, Stefano ^b   Latorre, José I ^c   Piccione, Andrea ^d,e   Rojo, Joan ^c  

^a CERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d INFN SEZIONE DI GENOVA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Deep Inelastic Scattering; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 27344453250     PISSN: 10298479     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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