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The predictions of the charm structure function exponents behaviour at low x in deep inelastic scattering

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2014-02-04 v1

Abstract

We use the hard (Lipatov) pomeron for the low-x gluon distribution and provide a compact formula for the ratio Rc=FLc/F2cR^{c} =F_{L}^{c}/F_{2}^{c} that is useful to extract the charm structure function from the reduced charm cross-section, in particular at DESY HERA. Our results show that this ratio is independent of x and independent of the DGLAP evolution of the gluon PDF. As a result, we show that the charm structure function and the reduced charm cross-section exponents do not have the same behaviour at very low x. This difference is independent of the input gluon distribution functions and predicts the non-linear effects and some evidence for shadowing and antishadowing at HERA and RHIC.

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@article{arxiv.1402.0165,
  title  = {The predictions of the charm structure function exponents behaviour at low x in deep inelastic scattering},
  author = {G. R. Boroun and B. Rezaei},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1402.0165},
  year   = {2014}
}

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6 pages,4 figures