Charm-Quark Production in Deep-Inelastic Neutrino Scattering at Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order in QCD
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Berger, Edmond L.
Gao, Jun
Li, Chong Sheng
Liu, Ze Long
Zhu, HuaXing
Date Issued
May 2016
Journal
Physical Review Letters
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American Physical Society
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Berger, Edmond L., Jun Gao, Chong Sheng Li, Ze Long Liu, and Hua Xing Zhu. Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 212002 (2016). © 2016 American Physical Society.
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Abstract
We present a fully differential next-to-next-to-leading order calculation of charm-quark production in charged-current deep-inelastic scattering, with full charm-quark mass dependence. The next-to-next-to-leading order corrections in perturbative quantum chromodynamics are found to be comparable in size to the next-to-leading order corrections in certain kinematic regions. We compare our predictions with data on dimuon production in (anti)neutrino scattering from a heavy nucleus. Our results can be used to improve the extraction of the parton distribution function of a strange quark in the nucleon.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Theoretical Physics
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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