Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2010-12-20
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
17 pages, 4 figures
Scientific paper
We present a global analysis of available data on inclusive structure functions and reduced cross sections measured in electron-proton scattering at small values of Bjorken-x, x<0.01, including the latest data from HERA on reduced cross sections. Our approach relies on the dipole formulation of DIS together with the use of the non-linear running coupling BK equation for the description of the small-x dynamics. We improve our previous studies by including the heavy quark (charm and beauty) contribution to the reduced cross sections, and also by considering a variable flavor scheme for the running of the coupling. We obtain a good description of data, the fit parameters remaining stable with respect to our previous analyses where only light quarks were considered. The inclusion of the heavy quark contributions resulted in a good description of available experimental data for the charm component of the structure function and reduced cross section provide the initial transverse distribution of heavy quarks was allowed to differ (more specifically, to have a smaller radius) from that of the light flavors.
Albacete Javier L.
Arias Paloma Quiroga
Armesto Nestor
Milhano Jose Guilherme
Salgado Carlos A.
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