Proton Structure Functions at Next-to-Leading Order in the Dipole Picture with Massive Quarks

Autor: Henri Hänninen, Heikki Mäntysaari, Risto Paatelainen, Jani Penttala
Přispěvatelé: Helsinki Institute of Physics, Department of Physics
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Physical Review Letters
ISSN: 1079-7114
0031-9007
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.130.192301
Popis: We predict heavy quark production cross sections in deep inelastic scattering at high energy by applying the color glass condensate effective theory. We demonstrate that, when the calculation is performed consistently at next-to-leading order accuracy with massive quarks, it becomes possible, for the first time in the dipole picture with perturbatively calculated center-of-mass energy evolution, to simultaneously describe both the light and heavy quark production data at small xBj. Furthermore, we show how the heavy quark cross section data provides additional strong constraints on the extracted nonperturbative initial condition for the small-xBj evolution equations.
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