Parton densities and structure functions beyond the next-to-leading order
Abstract
We briefly discuss recent results on the evolution of unpolarized parton densities and structure functions in massless perturbative QCD. Present partial results on the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) evolution kernels prove sufficient for reliable calculations at not too small values of the Bjorken variable, x > 10^-3. One order more can be taken into account at x >= 0.2. Inclusion of these terms considerably reduces the main theoretical uncertainties of determinations of alpha_s (to about 1% at the Z-mass) and the parton densities from structure functions.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0006230,
title = {Parton densities and structure functions beyond the next-to-leading order},
author = {W. L. van Neerven and A. Vogt},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0006230},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
6 pages LaTeX including 6 eps-figures. Talk presented at `Loops and Legs in Quantum Field Theory', Bastei (Germany) April 2000. To appear in the proceedings [Nucl. Phys. B (Proc. Suppl.)]