Uncertainties in Parton Related Quantities
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R.S. Thorne Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK 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.
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ar X iv : h ep - p h / 02 05 23 5 v 1 2 1 M ay 2 00 2 Uncertainties in Parton Related Quantities
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 underlyin...
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