Heavy-quark deep-inelastic scattering with a running mass
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15 pages
Published in:
- Phys.Lett.B 699 (2011) 345-353
e-Print:
- 1011.5790 [hep-ph]
PDG: -QUARK MASS
Report number:
- DESY-10-212
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Abstract: (Elsevier)
We study the production of heavy quarks in deep-inelastic scattering within perturbative QCD. As a new result, we employ for the first time the running mass definition in the MS¯ scheme for deep-inelastic charm and bottom production. We observe an improved stability of the perturbative expansion and a reduced theoretical uncertainty due to variations of the renormalization and factorization scales. As our best estimate we extract from a global fit to fixed-target and HERA collider data for the charm-quark an MS¯ mass of mc(mc)=1.01±0.09(exp)±0.03(th)GeV .Note:
- 16 pages Latex, 8 figures
- Deep-inelastic scattering
- Heavy-quark structure functions
- Running quark mass
- Charm quark mass
- factorization
- quantum chromodynamics: perturbation theory
- heavy quark: electroproduction
- renormalization
- DESY HERA Stor
- stability
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