Towards parton distributions with fitted charm
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2015-09-16 v1
Abstract
Modern parton distribution function fits require an accurate treatment of heavy quark mass effects. In this contribution, we discuss how the FONLL general-mass variable flavour number scheme can be extended to allow for the possibility of a fitted charm PDF. We present a first estimate of the impact of a fitted charm contribution in the FONLL structure functions, and we discuss the development towards including a fitted charm PDF in the NNPDF framework.
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@article{arxiv.1509.04432,
title = {Towards parton distributions with fitted charm},
author = {Patrick Groth Merrild and Luca Rottoli},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1509.04432},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
4 pages, 1 figure, to appear in the proceedings of the 18th High-Energy Physics International Conference in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD 15), 29 Jun-03 Jul 2015, Montpellier