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Soft-Gluon Resummation for Heavy Quark Production in Charged-Current Deep Inelastic Scattering

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v2

Abstract

We study soft-gluon radiation for heavy quark production in charged-current Deep Inelastic Scattering processes. We resum large-x contributions to the MSbar coefficient function to next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy and present results for charm quark structure functions for several values of the ratio m_c/Q. The effect of the resummation turns out to be visible, especially at small Q^2, and the results exhibit very little dependence on factorization and renormalization scales. The impact of our calculation on structure function measurements at NuTeV and HERA experiments is discussed.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0308105,
  title  = {Soft-Gluon Resummation for Heavy Quark Production in Charged-Current Deep Inelastic Scattering},
  author = {Gennaro Corcella and Alexander D. Mitov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0308105},
  year   = {2008}
}

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21 pages, 7 figures