Charm Production and Fragmentation in Charged Current DIS
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In charged current deep inelastic scattering charm is dominantly produced in scattering events on strange quarks, thereby allowing for an experimental determination of the nucleon’s strange sea density. A measurement of the energy spectrum of final state charm fragments (D-mesons) determines the charm fragmentation function at spacelike scales considerably below typical ee c.m.s. energies. NLO corrections to the naive s → c parton model production picture are important and well understood.
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تاریخ انتشار 1998