Exploring Nucleon Structure with the Self-Organizing Maps Algorithm

Abstract

We discuss the application of an alternative type of neural network, the Self-Organizing Map to extract parton distribution functions from various hard scattering processes.

15 pages, 13 figures. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1309.7085

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