Constraints for the nuclear parton distributions from Z and W± production at the LHC

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Paukkunen, Hannu ^a   Salgado, Carlos A ^a  

^a Universidade de Santiago de Compostela   (Spain)

Author keywords

Hadronic colliders; Parton model

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053125892     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP03(2011)071     Document Type: Article

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