Asymptotic 3-loop heavy flavor corrections to the charged current structure functions FLW+W(x,Q2)F_L^{W^+-W^-}(x,Q^2) and F2W+W(x,Q2)F_2^{W^+-W^-}(x,Q^2)

Sep 20, 2016
19 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 94 (2016) 11, 114006
  • Published: Dec 8, 2016
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Report number:
  • DESY-16-148,
  • DO-TH-16-15

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Abstract: (APS)
We derive the massive Wilson coefficients for the heavy flavor contributions to the nonsinglet charged current deep-inelastic scattering structure functions FLW+(x,Q2)-FLW-(x,Q2) and F2W+(x,Q2)-F2W-(x,Q2) in the asymptotic region Q2≫m2 to 3-loop order in quantum chromodynamics at general values of the Mellin variable N and the momentum fraction x. Besides the heavy quark pair production, also the single heavy flavor excitation s→c contributes. Numerical results are presented for the charm quark contributions, and consequences on the unpolarized Bjorken sum rule and Adler sum rule are discussed.
Note:
  • 27 pages, 8 figures
  • charged current
  • deep inelastic scattering: structure function
  • structure function: correction
  • quantum chromodynamics: correction
  • correction: higher-order
  • higher-order: 3
  • quantum chromodynamics: sum rule
  • sum rule: Bjorken
  • Mellin transformation
  • heavy quark: pair production