Threshold-improved predictions for charm production in deep-inelastic scattering

Abstract

We have extended previous results on the threshold expansion of the gluon coefficient function for the charm contribution to the deep-inelastic structure function F_2 by deriving all threshold-enhanced contributions at the next-to-next-to-leading order. The size of these corrections is briefly illustrated, and a first step towards extending this improvement to more differential charm-production cross sections is presented.

Comments: 6 pages, LaTeX (PoS style), 3 eps-figures. Presented by N.A.L.P. at DIS 2001, Florence (Italy), April 2010. To appear in the proceedings