Charm Production and Fragmentation in Charged Current DIS
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2009-10-31 v1
Abstract
In charged current deep inelastic scattering charm is dominantly produced in scattering events on strange quarks, thereby allowing for an experimental determination of the nucleon's strange sea density. A measurement of the energy spectrum of final state charm fragments (D-mesons) determines the charm fragmentation function at spacelike scales considerably below typical e^+e^- c.m.s. energies. NLO corrections to the naive s -> c parton model production picture are important and well understood.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9808464,
title = {Charm Production and Fragmentation in Charged Current DIS},
author = {S. Kretzer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9808464},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
4 pages, LaTeX, 4 figures, uses epsfig and espcrc2 style