Probing the strange content of the proton with charm production in charged current at LHeC

Abdolmaleki, Hamed; Bertone, Valerio; Britzger, Daniel; Camarda, Stefano; Cooper-Sarkar, Amanda; Geiser, Achim; Giuli, Francesco; Glazov, Alexander; Luszczak, Agnieszka; Novikov, Ivan; Olness, Fred; Sapronov, Andrey; Zenaiev, Oleksandr

doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-7362-7

Title: Probing the strange content of the proton with charm production in charged current at LHeC

Journal Article · 21 October 2019 · European Physical Journal. C, Particles and Fields

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-7362-7 · OSTI ID:1619366

Abdolmaleki, Hamed; Bertone, Valerio; Britzger, Daniel; Camarda, Stefano; Cooper-Sarkar, Amanda; Geiser, Achim; Giuli, Francesco; Glazov, Alexander; Luszczak, Agnieszka; Novikov, Ivan; Olness, Fred; Sapronov, Andrey; Zenaiev, Oleksandr

Abstract We study charm production in charged-current deep-inelastic scattering (DIS) using the xFitter framework. Recent results from the LHC have focused renewed attention on the determination of the strange-quark parton distribution function (PDF), and the DIS charm process provides important complementary constraints on this quantity. We examine the current PDF uncertainty and use LHeC pseudodata to estimate the potential improvement from this proposed facility. As xFitter implements both fixed-flavor- and variable-flavor-number schemes, we can compare the impact of these different theoretical choices; this highlights some interesting aspects of multi-scale calculations. We find that the high-statistics LHeC data covering a wide kinematic range could substantially reduce the strange PDF uncertainty.

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Research Organization:: Southern Methodist Univ., Dallas, TX (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE; USDOE Office of Science (SC)

Contributing Organization:: XFITTER Developers’ team

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0010129

OSTI ID:: 1619366

Journal Information:: European Physical Journal. C, Particles and Fields, Journal Name: European Physical Journal. C, Particles and Fields Journal Issue: 10 Vol. 79; ISSN 1434-6044

Publisher:: Springer Science + Business MediaCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: Germany

Language:: English

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