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Proceedings of The European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics — PoS(EPS-HEP 2013)

DOI: 10.22323/1.180.0440

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Combination and QCD analysis of charm production cross section measurements in deep-inelastic ep scattering at HERA

Journal article published in 2013 by J. Zácek, H. Abramowicz, A. F. Żarnecki, I. Abt, L. Adamczyk, M. Adamus, R. Aggarwal ORCID, R. Placakyṫ e, C. Alexa, R. Plačakytė, V. Andreev, S. Antonelli, D. Sálek, P. Antonioli, A. Antonov and other authors.
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Abstract

Measurements of open charm production cross sections in deep-inelastic ep scattering at HERA from the H1 and ZEUS Collaborations are combined. Reduced cross sections σ red cc̄ for charm production are obtained in the kinematic range of photon virtuality 2. 5≤Q 2 ≤2000 GeV 2 and Bjorken scaling variable 3{dot operator}10 -5 ≤x≤5{dot operator}10 -2 . The combination method accounts for the correlations of the systematic uncertainties among the different data sets. The combined charm data together with the combined inclusive deep-inelastic scattering cross sections from HERA are used as input for a detailed NLO QCD analysis to study the influence of different heavy flavour schemes on the parton distribution functions. The optimal values of the charm mass as a parameter in these different schemes are obtained. The implications on the NLO predictions for W ± and Z production cross sections at the LHC are investigated. Using the fixed flavour number scheme, the running mass of the charm quark is determined. © 2013 The Author(s).