Heavy quark initiated contributions to deep inelastic structure functions

May, 1998
28 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 58 (1998) 094035
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Report number:
  • DO-TH-98-05

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Abstract:
We present O(alpha_s^1) corrections to deep inelastic scattering amplitudes on massive quarks obtained within the scheme of Aivazis, Collins, Olness and Tung (ACOT). After identifying the correct subtraction term the convergence of these contributions towards the analogous coefficient functions for massless quarks, obtained within the modified minimal subtraction scheme (MSbar), is demonstrated. Furthermore, the quantitative relevance of the contributions to neutral current (NC) and charged current (CC) structure functions is investigated for several choices of the factorization scale.
Note:
  • 29 pages, 6 figures; uses epsfig.sty, amssymb.sty, axodraw.sty; minor changes for publication in Phys. Rev. D Report-no: DOTH-98/05
  • lepton nucleon: deep inelastic scattering
  • neutral current
  • charged current
  • nucleon: structure function
  • lepton nucleon: inclusive reaction
  • quark: massive
  • quark: charm
  • quark: hadroproduction
  • quantum chromodynamics: perturbation theory
  • gluon: fusion