42 research outputs found
Bottom quark electroproduction in variable flavor number schemes
Two variable flavor number schemes are used to describe bottom quark
production in deep inelastic electron-proton scattering. In these schemes the
coefficient functions are derived from mass factorization of the heavy quark
coefficient functions presented in a fixed flavor number scheme. Also one has
to construct a parton density set with five light flavors (u,d,s,c,b) out of a
set which only contains four light flavors (u,d,s,c). In order the
two sets are discontinuous at which follows from mass factorization
of the heavy quark coefficient functions when it is carried out in the -scheme. Both variable flavor number schemes give almost identical
predictions for the bottom structure functions and . Also
they both agree well with the corresponding results based on fixed order
four-flavor perturbation theory over a wide range in and .Comment: Latex with seventeen PostScript figure
Treatment of Heavy Quarks in Deeply Inelastic Scattering
We investigate a simplified version of the ACOT prescription for calculating
deeply inelastic scattering from Q^2 values near the squared mass M_H^2 of a
heavy quark to Q^2 much larger than M_H^2.Comment: 14 pages, 5 figure
Parton distributions from deep-inelastic-scattering data
We perform the analysis of existing light-targets deep-inelastic-scattering
(DIS) data in the leading-order (LO), next-to-leading-order (NLO), and
next-to-next-to-leading-order (NNLO) QCD approximations and extract PDFs
simultaneously with the value of the strong coupling constant and
the high-twist contribution to the structure functions. The main theoretical
uncertainties and experimental uncertainties due to all sources of experimental
errors in data are estimated, the latter generally dominate for the obtained
PDFs. The uncertainty in Higgs boson production cross section due to errors in
PDFs is % for the LHC and varies from 2% to 10% for the Fermilab
collider under variation of the Higgs boson mass from to . For the -boson production cross section the uncertainty is % for the both colliders. The value of is obtained, while the high-twist terms do
not vanish up to the NNLO as required by comparison to data
Heavy Flavours at Colliders
I review some topics in the production and decays of heavy flavours that are
relevant for collider physics. In particular, I discuss the present status and
some recent progress related to masses, parton densities and fragmentation
functions of heavy quarks, as well as threshold resummation, polarized onium
production at high transverse momentum, and a factorization theorem for decays.Comment: 12 pages. Plenary talk given at UK Phenomenology Workshop on Collider
Physics, Durham, England, 19-24 Sep 1999 Comments and references adde
A New 5-Flavour LO Analysis and Parametrization of Parton Distributions in the Real Photon
New, radiatively generated, LO quark (u,d,s,c,b) and gluon densities in a
real, unpolarized photon are presented. We perform a global 3-parameter fit,
based on LO DGLAP evolution equations, to all available data for the structure
function F2^gamma(x,Q^2). We adopt a new theoretical approach called ACOT(chi),
originally introduced for the proton, to deal with the heavy-quark thresholds.
This defines our basic model (CJKL model), which gives a very good description
of the experimental data on F2^gamma(x,Q^2), for both Q^2 and x dependences.
For comparison we perform a standard fit using the Fixed Flavour-Number Scheme
(FFNS_CJKL model), updated with respect to the previous fits of this type. We
show the superiority of the CJKL fit over the FFNS_CJKL one and other LO fits
to the F2^gamma(x,Q^2) data. The CJKL model gives also the best description of
the LEP data on the Q^2 dependence of the F2^gamma, averaged over various
x-regions, and the F_2,c^gamma, which were not used directly in the fit.
Finally, a simple analytic parametrization of the resulting parton densities
obtained with the CJKL model is given.Comment: 43 pages, RevTeX4 using axodraw style, 3 tex and 12 postscript
figures, version submitted to Phys. Rev. D, small text changes, one reference
added, FORTRAN program available at http://www.fuw.edu.pl/~pjank/param.html
and at http://www-zeuthen.desy.de/~alorca/id4.htm
Comparison between variable flavor number schemes for charm quark electroproduction
Where appropriate, the abbreviation 'VFNS' is replaced by 'CSN' to indicate
the scheme using massive heavy quark coefficient functions proposed in this
paper. The text below Eq. (2.13) and between Eqs. (2.33) and (2.36) has been
considerably changed.Comment: 64 pages, LaTeX, 16 Postscript figure
Heavy Flavour Physics at HERA - a Survey
At the HERA collider at DESY, high energy electron and positron beams
interact with proton beams. A review is presented of the variety of ways in
which these collisions produce final states containing charm and beauty quarks.Comment: 45 pages including 30 figures. Submitted to International Journal of
Modern Physics