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- Publisher
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Copyright
- Copyright © 1998 The American Physical Society
- ISSN
- 1089-4918
- DOI
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.57.6871
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
At low Q 2 , charm production in deep-inelastic scattering is adequately described by assuming generation in electroweak boson-light parton scattering (dominantly boson-gluon fusion), which naturally incorporates the correct threshold behavior. At high Q 2 this description is inadequate, since it does not sum logs in Q 2 / m c 2 , and is replaced by the treatment of the charm quark as a light parton. We show how the problem of going from one description to the other can be solved in a satisfactory manner to all orders. The key ingredient is the constraint of matching the evolution of the physical structure function F 2 order by order in α s ( Q 2 ) , in addition, to the matching of the value of F 2 itself. This leads to new expressions for the coefficient functions associated with the charm parton, which are unique in incorporating both the correct threshold and asymptotic behaviors at each order in perturbation theory. The use of these improved coefficients leads to an improvement in global fits and an excellent description of the observed F 2 , charm .
Journal
Physical Review D – American Physical Society (APS)
Published: Jun 1, 1998