An improved global analysis of nuclear parton distribution functions including RHIC data

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2008, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Deep inelastic scattering; Hadronic Colliders; Parton model; QCD

Indexed keywords

EID: 49749129589     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/07/102     Document Type: Article

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