How Bright is the Proton? A Precise Determination of the Photon Parton Distribution Function

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 117, Issue 24, 2016, Pages

  Manohar, Aneesh ^a,b   Nason, Paolo ^c   Salam, Gavin P ^b,e   Zanderighi, Giulia ^b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

^c INFN SEZIONE DI MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e LPTHE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON SCATTERING; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FUNCTIONS; PHOTONS;

LARGE HADRON COLLIDER; MODEL INDEPENDENT; MOMENTUM FRACTION; PARTON DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; PHOTON DISTRIBUTIONS; PRECISE DETERMINATIONS; PROTON STRUCTURE; THE STANDARD MODEL;

DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS;

EID: 85003429889     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.242002     Document Type: Article

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