HERA Anomaly and Hard Charm in the Nucleon
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We explore the possibility that the excess neutral and charged current events seen by the H1 and ZEUS Collaborations at HERA at large x and Q2 could arise from a hard charm component of the nucleon. While the symmetric intrinsic charm hypothesis is unable to account for the HERA anomaly, a non-symmetric charm distribution generated non-perturbatively, for which c is much harder than c, can produce significant enhancement of cross sections at the HERA kinematics. PACS numbers: 13.60.Hb, 14.65.Dw, 12.38.Qk Typeset using REVTEX
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