Friday·April 24, 2015

Reply to Comment on "New limits on intrinsic charm in the nucleon from global analysis of parton distributions"

P. Jimenez-Delgado🇺🇸 · T. J. Hobbs🇺🇸 · J. T. Londergan🇺🇸 · W. Melnitchouk🇺🇸

We reply to the Comment of Brodsky and Gardner on our paper "New limits on intrinsic charm in the nucleon from global analysis of parton distributions" [Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 082002 (2015)]. We address a number of incorrect claims made about our fitting methodology, and elaborate how global QCD analysis of all available high-energy data provides no evidence for a large intrinsic charm component of the nucleon.