Parton distributions for event generators

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Lai, Hung Liang ^a   Huston, Joey ^b   Mrenna, Stephen ^c   Nadolsky, Pavel M ^d   Stump, Daniel ^b   Tung, Wu Ki ^b,e   Yuan, C P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TAIPEI   (Taiwan)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^d SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

QCD Phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 77954937110     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP04(2010)035     Document Type: Article

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