Heavy quarks in charged-current deep inelastic scattering: a systematic phenomenological study

Abstract

We present a systematic QCD analysis of the strange--charm and bottom--top contributions to transverse and longitudinal structure functions in charged--current deep inelastic scattering. Various $\mathcal{O}({\alpha }_s^1)$ schemes are studied and compared. The dependence of their predictions on the factorization scale ${\mu }^2$ is investigated. The theoretical uncertainties resulting from the choice of the scheme and of ${\mu }^2$ are estimated.

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