General-mass treatment for deep inelastic scattering at two-loop accuracy

Abstract

We present a next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) realization of a general quark mass scheme (S-ACOT-$\chi$) in deep inelastic scattering and explore the impact of NNLO terms on heavy-quark structure functions $F_{2,L}^c(x,Q)$. An amended QCD factorization theorem for DIS is discussed that validates the S-ACOT-$\chi$ scheme to all orders in the QCD coupling strength. As a new feature, kinematical constraints on collinear production of heavy quarks that are crucial near the heavy-quark threshold are included in the amended factorization theorem. An algorithmic procedure is outlined for implementing this scheme at NNLO by using mass-dependent and massless results from literature. At two loops in QCD cut diagrams, the S-ACOT-$\chi$ scheme reduces scale dependence of heavy-quark DIS cross sections as compared to the fixed-flavor number scheme.

32 pages, 9 figures; final PRD version, added references, extended discussion of several massive flavors, extended comparison to other GM schemes

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