Heavy Quarks and Structure Functions
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
I present a method for calculating heavy quark production which extrapolates smoothly from the well understood limits of the fixed-flavour number scheme for Q^2 approx m_H^2 to the zero-mass scheme at Q^2/m_H^2 -> infinity. For all Q^2 > m_H^2 the evolution of the heavy quark distribution is precisely as in the massless MSbar scheme. The method is simple to implement and compares well with data.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9805298,
title = {Heavy Quarks and Structure Functions},
author = {R. S. Thorne},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9805298},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
4pages, Latex, 2 postscript figures. Contribution to International Workshop on Deep Inelastic Scattering and QCD, DIS98, Brussels, Belgium, April 1998