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Charm Production in Deep-Inelastic $e\gamma$ Scattering To Next-To-Leading Order in QCD

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We discuss the calculation of F2γ(charm)F_2^{\gamma}({\rm charm}) to next-to-leading order (NLO) in QCD, including contributions from both hadronlike and pointlike photons. We show that the former dominates strongly below x0.01x\simeq 0.01, and the latter above this value. This fact makes F2γ(charm)F_2^{\gamma}({\rm charm}) for x0.01x \geq 0.01 calculable, whereas for x0.01x \leq 0.01 it serves to constrain the small-xx gluon density in the photon. Both ranges in xx are accessible at LEP2. Theoretical uncertainties are well under control. We present rates for single-tag events for the process for e+ee+ecXe^+e^- \rightarrow e^+e^- c X for LEP2. Although these event rates are small, we believe a measurement of F2γ(charm)F_2^{\gamma}({\rm charm}) is feasible.

Cite

@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9505230,
  title  = {Charm Production in Deep-Inelastic $e\gamma$ Scattering To Next-To-Leading Order in QCD},
  author = {E. Laenen and S. Riemersma},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9505230},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

7 pages Latex, with 2 eps figs., uuencoded