Uncertainties of predictions from parton distribution functions. I. The Lagrange multiplier method

Physical Review D

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2002, Pages

  Stump, D ^a   Pumplin, J ^a   Brock, R ^a   Casey, D ^a   Huston, J ^a   Kalk, J ^a   Lai, H L ^a,b   Tung, W K ^a,c  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MINGHSIN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^c CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; ELEMENTARY PARTICLE; HADRON; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIER METHOD; PARTON; PHENOMENOLOGY; PREDICTION; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 3543077915     PISSN: 05562821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.65.014012     Document Type: Article

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