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Status of MRST/MSTW PDF sets

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-07-15 v1

Abstract

We outline the historical development of MRST/MSTW parton distribution functions (PDFs), and clarify how they should be regarded when compared to the most up-to-date 2008 MSTW sets, noting which sets are now obsolete and the reasons why.

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@article{arxiv.0907.2387,
  title  = {Status of MRST/MSTW PDF sets},
  author = {R. S. Thorne and A. D. Martin and W. J. Stirling and G. Watt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0907.2387},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

To appear in the proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Deep Inelastic Scattering, Madrid, April 2009. 5 pages, 1 figure