Azimuthal Dependence of the Heavy Quark Initiated Contributions to DIS

dc.creatorAnanikyan, L. N.
dc.creatorIvanov, N. Ya.
dc.date2006-09-07
dc.date2007-01-15
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dc.descriptionWe analyze the azimuthal dependence of the heavy-quark-initiated contributions to the lepton-nucleon deep inelastic scattering (DIS). First we derive the relations between the parton level semi-inclusive structure functions and the helicity $γ^{*}Q$ cross sections in the case of arbitrary values of the heavy quark mass. Then the azimuth-dependent ${\cal O}(α_{s})$ lepton-quark DIS is calculated in the helicity basis. Finally, we investigate numerically the properties of the $\cosϕ$ and $\cos2ϕ$ distributions caused by the photon-quark scattering (QS) contribution. It turns out that, contrary to the basic photon-gluon fusion (GF) component, the QS mechanism is practically $\cos2ϕ$-independent. This fact implies that measurements of the azimuthal distributions in charm leptoproduction could directly probe the charm density in the proton.
dc.description11 pages, 4 figures, revtex4, published version
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0609074
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0609074
dc.identifierPhys.Rev.D75:014010,2007
dc.identifierdoi:10.1103/PhysRevD.75.014010
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/189283
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology
dc.titleAzimuthal Dependence of the Heavy Quark Initiated Contributions to DIS
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