Advances in High Energy Physics
Volume 2014 (2014), Article ID 379823, 9 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/379823
Research Article
An Analytical Study of the Nonsinglet Spin Structure Function Up to NLO in the DGLAP Approach at Small
1Department of Physics, Gauhati University, Guwahati 781014, India
2Physics Academy of North East, Assam, Guwahati 781014, India
3Centre for Theoretical Physics, Pandu College, Guwahati 781012, India
Received 16 July 2014; Accepted 28 October 2014; Published 23 November 2014
Academic Editor: George Siopsis
Copyright © 2014 Neelakshi N. K. Borah and D. K. Choudhury. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The publication of this article was funded by SCOAP3.
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