Unbiased Polarised Parton Distribution Functions and their Uncertainties
arXiv:1206.0201
Abstract
We present preliminary results on the determination of spin-dependent, or polarised, Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs) from all relevant inclusive polarised DIS data. The analysis is performed within the NNPDF approach, which provides a faithful and statistically sound representation of PDFs and their uncertainties. We describe how the NNPDF methodology has been extended to the polarised case, and compare our results with other recent polarised parton sets. We show that polarised PDF uncertainties can be sizeably underestimated in standard determinations, most notably for the gluon.
5 pages, 5 figures DIS2012 conference proceedings contribution Corrected typing error in Tab. 1
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