Towards parton distributions with fitted charm

Modern parton distribution function fits require an accurate treatment of heavy quark mass effects. In this contribution, we discuss how the FONLL general-mass variable flavour number scheme can be extended to allow for the possibility of a fitted charm PDF. We present a first estimate of the impact...

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Main Authors:	Groth-Merrild, P, Rottoli, L, Ball, R, Bertone, V, Carrazza, S, Del Debbio, L, Forte, S, Guffanti, A, Hartland, P, Kassabov, Z, Latorre, I, Rojo, J, Ubiali, M
Format:	Conference item
Published:	Elsevier 2016

Towards parton distributions with fitted charm

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