Fitting EMC structure functions with intrinsic charm
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2016-07-18 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract
A detailed study of the impact of the data collected by the European Muon Collaboration (EMC) on the parton distribution function (PDF) of the charm quark is presented. The analysis is performed in the NNPDF framework, and the charm PDF is freely parametrized on equal footing as light quark and gluon distributions. We find that variations in the treatment of EMC data do not modify the charm PDF and do not affect our previous conclusion on the presence of an intrinsic component in the charm PDF.
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@article{arxiv.1606.09289,
title = {Fitting EMC structure functions with intrinsic charm},
author = {Luca Rottoli},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1606.09289},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
6 pages, 3 figures. To appear in the proceedings of the XXIV International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects, 11-15 April, 2016, DESY Hamburg, Germany. v2: added one reference and corrected figures