Parton Distributions with the Combined HERA Charm Production Cross Sections

Abstract

Heavy quark structure functions from HERA provide a direct handle on the medium and small-x gluon PDF. In this contribution, we discuss ongoing progress on the implementation of the FONLL General-Mass scheme with running heavy quark masses, and of its benchmarking with the HOPPET and OpenQCDrad codes, and then present the impact of the recently released combined HERA charm production cross sections in the NNPDF2.3 analysis. We find that the combined charm data contribute to constraining the gluon and quarks at small values of Bjorken-x.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables, contribution to the proceedings of the DIFFRACTION 2012 Workshop, Sep 10-15, Puerto del Carmen, Spai