2011/03/02 by A. De Roeck, R. S. Thorne, R.S. Thorne · 3 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.ppnp.2011.06.001
72 pages. Originally submitted for publication in summer 2010. Various minor updates included for current version
arxiv created 2011/03/02 · openalex publication_date 2011/07/05 · crossref created 2011/07/05 · crossref issued 2011/10/01 · crossref published 2011/10/01 · crossref published-print 2011/10/01 · arxiv updated 2015/05/27 · crossref deposited 2018/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · crossref indexed 2026/05/14 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
Structure functions are a measure of the partonic structure of hadrons, which is important for any process which involves colliding hadrons. They are a key ingredient for deriving partons distributions in nucleons. In recent years dramatic progress has been made in the understanding of the nucleon structure and the precision of its partonic content, due to vast theoretical progress, and the availability of new high precision measurements. This review gives an overview on present structure function and related data, and on the most recent techniques used to extract parton distribution functions to describe the structure of the proton. Special attention is given to the determination of the uncertainties on the parton distributions.