Charm production and parton distributions

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作者
Lai, HL
Tung, WK
机构
[1] Michigan State University, E. Lansing
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ZEITSCHRIFT FUR PHYSIK C-PARTICLES AND FIELDS | 1997年 / 74卷 / 03期
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
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10.1007/s002880050408
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O412 [相对论、场论]; O572.2 [粒子物理学];
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摘要
Recent accurate data on F-2(x, Q) and on F-2(c)(x, Q) from HERA at small-x require a more precise treatment of charm production in the global analysis of parton distributions. We improve on existing global QCD analyses by implementing the leptoproduction formalism of Aivazis et al. which represents a natural generalization of the conventional zero mass QCD parton framework to include heavy quark mass effects. We also perform analyses based on the fixed-flavor-number scheme, which is widely used in the literature, and demonstrate their uses and limitations. We discuss the implications of the improved treatment of heavy quark mass effect in practical applications of PQCD and compare our results with recent related works.
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