Implications of CMS analysis of photon-photon interactions for photon PDFs
- Award ID(s):
- 1719914
- Publication Date:
- NSF-PAR ID:
- 10093588
- Journal Name:
- Chinese Physics C
- Volume:
- 42
- Issue:
- 11
- Page Range or eLocation-ID:
- 113101
- ISSN:
- 1674-1137
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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