The Heavy-Flavour Contribution to Proton Structure
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We present theoretical and experimental considerations pertaining to deeply inelastic heavyflavour production at HERA. The various theoretical uncertainties in the cross section calculation are discussed. Cuts are imposed to determine the fraction of charm production accessible to the detectors. The production of charm at asymptotic Q and bottom production are also covered. Experimental aspects include current charm production data analysis and prospects for future analyses including anticipated high precision and distinguishing photon-gluon fusion charm events from excitation from the charm parton density. The feasibility of measuring F bb 2 (x,Q ) is investigated. To appear in abbreviated form in the proceedings of the workshop “Future Physics at HERA”, DESY, Hamburg, 1996. The Heavy-Flavour Contribution to Proton Structure K. Daum, S. Riemersma, B.W. Harris, E. Laenen, J. Smith a Rechenzentrum, Universität Wuppertal, Gaußstraße 20, D-42097 Wuppertal, Germany b DESY, Notkestrasse 85, D-22603 Hamburg, Germany c DESY-Zeuthen, Platanenallee 6 D-15738 Zeuthen, Germany d Department of Physics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, 32306-3016, USA e CERN Theory Division, CH-1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland f Institute for Theoretical Physics, SUNY Stony Brook, NY 11794-3840, USA Abstract: We present theoretical and experimental considerations pertaining to deeply inelastic heavy-flavour production. The various theoretical uncertainties in the cross section calculation are discussed. Cuts are imposed to determine the fraction of charm production accessible to the detectors. The production of charm at asymptotic Q and bottom production are also covered. Experimental aspects include current charm production data analysis and prospects for future analyses including anticipated high precision and distinguishing photon-gluon fusion charm events from excitation from the charm parton density. The feasibility of measuring F bb 2 (x,Q ) is investigated. We present theoretical and experimental considerations pertaining to deeply inelastic heavy-flavour production. The various theoretical uncertainties in the cross section calculation are discussed. Cuts are imposed to determine the fraction of charm production accessible to the detectors. The production of charm at asymptotic Q and bottom production are also covered. Experimental aspects include current charm production data analysis and prospects for future analyses including anticipated high precision and distinguishing photon-gluon fusion charm events from excitation from the charm parton density. The feasibility of measuring F bb 2 (x,Q ) is investigated.
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