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Dimuon production in DIS with charm-mass effects

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2025-11-04 v1

Abstract

Dimuon production in neutrino-nucleus collisions, an important constraint of strangeness in global parton distribution function analyses, is typically calculated by assuming it to be proportional to inclusive charm production. This approach breaks down beyond fixed-flavor leading-order calculations. In our previous work, we introduced an alternative approach based on semi-inclusive charmed-hadron production to compute dimuon production directly. We now present an extension to this work, where we compute the semi-inclusive hadron production in the SACOT-χ\chi general-mass variable-flavor number scheme to take all charm-mass effects consistently into account. The results are in line with our expectations, with the dynamical charm-mass effects modifying our previous approximative calculation by up to 20%20 \, \% at small values of Q2Q^2.

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@article{arxiv.2511.01055,
  title  = {Dimuon production in DIS with charm-mass effects},
  author = {Ilkka Helenius and Hannu Paukkunen and Sami Yrjänheikki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.01055},
  year   = {2025}
}

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To appear in the proceedings of the 32nd International Workshop on Deep Inelastic Scattering (DIS2025), 24-28 March 2025, Cape Town, South Africa