Impact-parameter dependent nuclear parton distribution functions: EPS09s and EKS98s and their applications in nuclear hard processes

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volumn 2012, Issue 7, 2012, Pages

  Helenius, Ilkka ^a,b   Eskola, Kari J ^a,b   Honkanen, Heli ^a,c   Salgado, Carlos A ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Universidade de Santiago de Compostela   (Spain)

^e CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Heavy ion phenomenology; QCD phenomenology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864435654     PISSN: 11266708     EISSN: 10298479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP07(2012)073     Document Type: Article

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