Heavy-quark deep-inelastic scattering with a running mass

Nov, 2010
15 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Lett.B 699 (2011) 345-353
e-Print:
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