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The results of calculations of uncertainties of the Drell-Yan production cross section at the energy √s = 13 TeV are presented. Systematic errors related to uncertainties in the quark and gluon distribution functions, the choice of the QCD factorization scale, and the QCD running coupling constant are considered.
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Original Russian Text © V.F. Konoplyanikov, M.V. Savina, S.V. Shmatov, S.G. Shulga, 2014, published in Pis’ma v Zhurnal Fizika Elementarnykh Chastits i Atomnogo Yadra, 2014.
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Konoplyanikov, V.F., Savina, M.V., Shmatov, S.V. et al. Uncertainties of Drell-Yan production cross section in pp collisions at the LHC. Phys. Part. Nuclei Lett. 11, 722–729 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1547477114060077
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