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Impact of heavy-quark production measurements in the CT18 global QCD analysis of PDFs

by Marco Guzzi, Pavel Nadolsky, Keping Xie

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Authors (as registered SciPost users): Marco Guzzi · Keping Xie
Submission information
Preprint Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.01791v1  (pdf)
Date accepted: 2021-08-30
Date submitted: 2021-08-05 14:46
Submitted by: Guzzi, Marco
Submitted to: SciPost Physics Proceedings
Proceedings issue: 28th Annual Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering (DIS) and Related Subjects (DIS2021)
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Academic field: Physics
Specialties:
  • High-Energy Physics - Theory
  • High-Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Approach: Phenomenological

Abstract

We discuss the impact of heavy-flavor production measurements in semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering at HERA on the CTEQ-TEA PDFs. In particular, we study the impact of the latest charm and bottom production measurements from the H1 and ZEUS collaborations on the gluon, and the interplay of these measurements with the data ensemble of the recent CT18 global QCD analysis.

Published as SciPost Phys. Proc. 8, 164 (2022)


Reports on this Submission

Anonymous Report 1 on 2021-8-9 (Invited Report)

  • Cite as: Anonymous, Report on arXiv:2108.01791v1, delivered 2021-08-09, doi: 10.21468/SciPost.Report.3358

Strengths

Clear exposition of a problem with heavy quark data

Weaknesses

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Report

This is a conference proceedings investigating the difficulty that the CT group has had fitting HERA heavy quark data from the most recent combination of HERA c,b data. This difficulty is shared by other fitting groups, MSHT,NNPDF and HERA themselves. This paper gives the result of limited specific changes to the assumptions made for the PDF fit, which shed some light on the problem. I look forward to the further work which is promised.

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