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New Generation of Parton Distributions with Uncertainties from Global QCD Analysis

Jonathan Pumplin1, Daniel Robert Stump1, Joey Huston1, Hung-Liang Lai1, Pavel Nadolsky1 and Wu-Ki Tung1

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