Fitting parton distribution data with multiplicative normalization uncertainties

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2010, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Ball, Richard D ^a   Del Debbio, Luigi ^a   Forte, Stefano ^b   Guffanti, Alberto ^c   Latorre, José I ^d   Rojo, Juan ^b   Ubiali, Maria ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b INFN SEZIONE DI MILANO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

QCD phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955008121     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP05(2010)075     Document Type: Article

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