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Including heavy flavour production in PDF fits

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2007-09-04 v1

Abstract

AT HERA heavy quarks may contribute up to 30% of the structure function F2F_2. The introduction of heavy quarks requires an extension of the DGLAP formalism. The effect of using different heavy flavour number schemes, and different approaches to the running of αs\alpha_s, are compared using the ZEUS PDF fit formalism. The potential of including charm data in the fit is explored, using DD^* double differential cross-sections rather than the inclusive quantity F2ccˉF_2^{c\bar{c}}.

Cite

@article{arxiv.0709.0191,
  title  = {Including heavy flavour production in PDF fits},
  author = {A M Cooper-Sarkar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0709.0191},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

7 pages, 10 figures, contribution to discussion at HERA-LHC workshop 2007

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