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Charm Production in Deep Inelastic Scattering

Mellin Moments of Heavy Flavor Contributions to F2(x,Q^2) at NNLO

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Authors:
  1. Sebastian Klein

    1. , Center of Physics, Inst. for Theoretical Particle Physics, Aachen, Germany

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  • Presents a new and more accurate description of quark production in particle experiments
  • Selected by the German Physical Society for a Dissertation Award 2011
  • Develops new mathematical tools
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Sebastian Klein
    Pages 1-16

  3. Deeply Inelastic Scattering

    • Sebastian Klein
    Pages 17-46

  4. Heavy Quark Production in DIS

    • Sebastian Klein
    Pages 47-61

  5. Renormalization of Composite Operator Matrix Elements

    • Sebastian Klein
    Pages 63-96

  6. Representation in Different Renormalization Schemes

    • Sebastian Klein
    Pages 97-103

  7. Calculation of the Massive Operator Matrix Elements up to \(O(a_s^2\varepsilon)\)

    • Sebastian Klein
    Pages 105-132

  8. Calculation of Moments at \(O(a_s^3)\)

    • Sebastian Klein
    Pages 133-145

  9. Heavy Flavor Corrections to Polarized Deep-Inelastic Scattering

    • Sebastian Klein
    Pages 147-162

  10. Heavy Flavor Contributions to Transversity

    • Sebastian Klein
    Pages 163-170

  11. First Steps Towards a Calculation of \(A_{ij}^{(3)}\) for all Moments

    • Sebastian Klein
    Pages 171-181

  12. Conclusions

    • Sebastian Klein
    Pages 183-186

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 187-241
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The production of heavy quarks in high-energy experiments offers a rich field to study, both experimentally and theoretically. Due to the additional quark mass, the description of these processes in the framework of perturbative QCD is much more demanding than it is for those involving only massless partons. In the last two decades, a large amount of precision data has been collected by the deep inelastic HERA experiment. In order to make full use of these data, a more precise theoretical description of charm quark production in deep inelastic scattering is needed. This work deals with the first calculation of fixed moments of the NNLO heavy flavor corrections to the proton structure function F2 in the limit of a small charm-quark mass. The correct treatment of these terms will allow not only a more precise analysis of the HERA data, but starting from there also a more precise determination of the parton distribution functions and the strong coupling constant, which is an essential input for LHC physics.
The complexity of this calculation requires the application and development of technical and mathematical methods, which are also explained here in detail.

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  • , Center of Physics, Inst. for Theoretical Particle Physics, Aachen, Germany

    Sebastian Klein

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