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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
Part of the book series: Springer Theses (Springer Theses)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
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, Center of Physics, Inst. for Theoretical Particle Physics, Aachen, Germany
Sebastian Klein
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Charm Production in Deep Inelastic Scattering
Book Subtitle: Mellin Moments of Heavy Flavor Contributions to F2(x,Q^2) at NNLO
Authors: Sebastian Klein
Series Title: Springer Theses
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23286-2
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-23285-5Published: 09 October 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-27030-7Published: 29 November 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-23286-2Published: 09 October 2011
Series ISSN: 2190-5053
Series E-ISSN: 2190-5061
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 242
Topics: Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory, Particle and Nuclear Physics, Mathematical Methods in Physics