Semi-Exclusive Heavy Quark Production in Charged-Current Deep Inelastic Scattering

Abstract

Main aim of this research consists in the description of Deep Inelastic Scattering (DIS) processes mediated by Charged Currents (CC), producing a massive quark in the final state. Formalism of DIS processes has been investigated in depth, including mass contributions for charged lepton. Semi-exclusive partonic coefficient functions for heavy quark production up to Next-to-Leading Order have been carried out in the context of perturbative QCD.

Comments: Ph.D. Thesis in Physics. University of Parma (Italy), year 2005. 107 pages, 44 figures