I present a formulation of a Variable Flavour Number Scheme for heavy quarks that is implemented up to NNLO in the strong coupling constant and may be used in NNLO global fits for parton distributions.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0506251,
title = {A Variable Flavour Number Scheme at NNLO},
author = {R. S. Thorne},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0506251},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, 6 figures included as .ps files. To appear in proceedings of DIS05, XIII International Workshop on Deep Inelastic Scattering