Impact of heavy-flavour production cross sections measured by the LHCb experiment on parton distribution functions at low x

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Zenaiev, O. [1 ]
Geiser, A. [1 ]
Lipka, K. [1 ]
Bluemlein, J. [1 ]
Cooper-Sarkar, A. [2 ]
Garzelli, M. -V. [3 ]
Guzzi, M. [4 ]
Kuprash, O. [1 ]
Moch, S. -O. [3 ]
Nadolsky, P. [5 ]
Placakyte, R. [1 ]
Rabbertz, K. [6 ]
Schienbein, I. [7 ]
Starovoitov, P. [1 ]
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[1] DESY Hamburg & Zeuthen, Hamburg, Germany
[2] Univ Oxford, Oxford, England
[3] Univ Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
[4] Univ Manchester, Sch Phys & Astron, Manchester, Lancs, England
[5] So Methodist Univ, Dallas, TX 75275 USA
[6] Karlsruher Inst Technol, Karlsruhe, Germany
[7] LPSC Grenoble, Grenoble, France
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EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL C | 2015年 / 75卷 / 08期
关键词
3-LOOP SPLITTING FUNCTIONS; DEEP-INELASTIC SCATTERING; QUARK PRODUCTION; QCD CORRECTIONS; FRAGMENTATION FUNCTIONS; LEADING ORDER; POLE MASS; COLLISIONS; DENSITIES; EVOLUTION;
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10.1140/epjc/s10052-015-3618-z
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O412 [相对论、场论]; O572.2 [粒子物理学];
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摘要
The impact of recent measurements of heavy-flavour production in deep inelastic ep scattering and in pp collisions on parton distribution functions is studied in a QCD analysis in the fixed-flavour number scheme at next-to-leading order. Differential cross sections of charm- and beauty-hadron production measured by LHCb are used together with inclusive and heavy-flavour production cross sections in deep inelastic scattering at HERA. The heavy-flavour data of the LHCb experiment impose additional constraints on the gluon and the sea-quark distributions at low partonic fractions x of the proton momentum, down to x similar to 5x10(-6). This kinematic range is currently not covered by other experimental data in perturbative QCD fits.
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