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New parton distributions in fixed flavour factorization scheme from recent deep-inelastic-scattering data

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-06-05 v3

Abstract

We present our QCD analysis of the proton structure function F2p(x,Q2)F_2^p(x,Q^2) to determine the parton distributions at the next-to-leading order (NLO). The heavy quark contributions to F2i(x,Q2)F_2^i(x,Q^2), with ii = cc, bb have been included in the framework of the `fixed flavour number scheme' (FFNS). The results obtained in the FFNS are compared with available results such as the general-mass variable-flavour-number scheme (GM-VFNS) and other prescriptions used in global fits of PDFs. In the present QCD analysis, we use a wide range of the inclusive neutral-current deep-inelastic-scattering (NC DIS) data, including the most recent data for charm F2cF_2^c, bottom F2bF_2^b, longitudinal FLF_L structure functions and also the reduced DIS cross sections σr,NC±\sigma_{r,NC}^\pm from HERA experiments. The most recent HERMES data for proton and deuteron structure functions are also added. We take into account ZEUS neutral current e±pe^ \pm p DIS inclusive jet cross section data from HERA together with the recent Tevatron Run-II inclusive jet cross section data from CDF and D{\O}. The impact of these recent DIS data on the PDFs extracted from the global fits are studied. We present two families of PDFs, {\tt KKT12} and {\tt KKT12C}, without and with HERA `combined' data sets on e±pe^{\pm}p DIS. We find these are in good agreement with the available theoretical models.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1205.5194,
  title  = {New parton distributions in fixed flavour factorization scheme from recent deep-inelastic-scattering data},
  author = {H. Khanpour and Ali N. Khorramian and S. Atashbar Tehrani},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1205.5194},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

23 pages, 26 figures and 4 tables. V3: Only few comments and references added in the replaced version, results unchanged. Code can be found at http://particles.ipm.ir/links/QCD.htm

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