Running of the Charm-Quark Mass from HERA Deep-Inelastic Scattering Data
arXiv:1705.08863 · doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2017.11.002
Abstract
Combined HERA data on charm production in deep-inelastic scattering have previously been used to determine the charm-quark running mass $m_c(m_c)$ in the MSbar renormalisation scheme. Here, the same data are used as a function of the photon virtuality $Q^2$ to evaluate the charm-quark running mass at different scales to one-loop order, in the context of a next-to-leading order QCD analysis. The scale dependence of the mass is found to be consistent with QCD expectations.
12 pages, 4 figures