Complete O (alpha-s) corrections to heavy flavor structure functions in electroproduction

May, 1992
98 pages
Published in:
  • Nucl.Phys.B 392 (1993) 162-228
Report number:
  • ITP-SB-92-09

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Abstract: (Elsevier)
The complete O( α S ) QCD corrections to the virtual-photon cross sections for heavy-flavour production in deep-elastic electron-proton scattering are presented. These results are then used to calculate the O( α S ) corrections to the heavy-flavour contributions to the structure functions F 2 ( x , Q 2 , m 2 ) and F L ( x , Q 2 , m 2 ). We examine these corrections in the x and Q 2 range appropriate for c- and b-quark production at HERA. Our results are also compared with the O( α S ) plus O( α S 2 ) corrections for massless quarks.
  • electron p: deep inelastic scattering
  • deep inelastic scattering: electron p
  • charm
  • bottom
  • quark: electroproduction
  • electroproduction: quark
  • quantum chromodynamics: correction
  • neutral current
  • cross section
  • model: production