Uncertainties on Parton Related Quantities
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2008-11-26 v1
Abstract
I discuss the issue of uncertainties in parton distributions and in the physical quantities which are determined in terms of them. While there has been significant progress on the uncertainties associated with errors on experimental data, there are still outstanding questions. Also, I demonstrate that in many circumstances this source of errors may be less important than errors due to underlying assumptions in the fitting procedure and due to the incomplete nature of the theoretical calculations.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0205235,
title = {Uncertainties on Parton Related Quantities},
author = {R. S. Thorne},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0205235},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
Invited talk at the Conference on Advanced Statistical Techniques in Particle Physics, March 18th-22nd 2002, Durham, UK. 10 pages, 9 figures as .eps files, uses cernrep.cls