Probing gluon and heavy-quark nuclear PDFs with γ + Q production in pA collisions

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2011, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Stavreva, T ^a   Schienbein, I ^a   Arleo, F ^b   Kovarik K ^c   Olness, F ^d   Yu, J Y ^d   Owens, J F ^e  

^a GRENOBLE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SAVOIE   (France)

^c KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^d SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

QCD phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053127203     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP01(2011)152     Document Type: Article

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