A global reanalysis of nuclear parton distribution functions

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2007, Issue 5, 2007, Pages

  Eskola, Kari J ^a   Kolhinen, Vesa J ^a   Paukkunen, Hannu ^a   Salgado, Carlos A ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITÀ DI ROMA LA SAPIENZA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Deep inelastic scattering; Parton model; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547567059     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2007/05/002     Document Type: Article

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