A Variable Flavour Number Scheme for Heavy Quark Production at Small x

Details A Variable Flavour Number Scheme for Heavy Quark Production at Small x A Variable Flavour Number Scheme for Heavy Quark Production at Small x

2006-03-03

arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0603030v1

Phys.Rev.D74:014002,2006

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

40 pages, 16 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.74.014002

We define a new variable flavour number scheme for use in deep inelastic scattering, motivated by the need to consistently implement high energy resummations alongside a fixed order QCD expansion. We define the DIS(chi) scheme at fixed order, and show how to obtain the small x coefficient functions and heavy flavour matrix elements to leading order in the high energy resummation. We then implement these results in a global fit at LO which includes leading resummations with running coupling corrections. Finally, we address the impact of the resummed results on predictions for the longitudinal structure function. We find that they stabilise the behaviour of F_L at small x. Overall, we find that resummations significantly improve the fit to scattering data in the low x regime, although higher orders in the fixed order expansion are needed to describe current structure function and related data over the complete x range.

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