Questions on Uncertainties in Parton Distributions
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2008-11-26 v1
Abstract
A discussion is presented of the manner in which uncertainties in parton distributions and related quantities are determined. One of the central problems is the criteria used to judge what variation of the parameters describing a set of partons is acceptable within the context of a global fit. Various ways of addressing this question are outlined.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0205233,
title = {Questions on Uncertainties in Parton Distributions},
author = {R. S. Thorne and H. Boettcher and A. M. Cooper-Sarkar and B. Reisert and V. Shekelyan and W. J. Stirling and D. R. Stump and A. Vogt},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0205233},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
Summary of discussion session at the Conference on Advanced Statistical Techniques in Particle Physics, March 18th-22nd 2002, Durham, UK. 4 pages, 3 figures as .eps files, uses cernrep.cls