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Ct14 Intrinsic Charm Parton Distribution Functions From Cteq-Tea Global Analysis, Tie-Jiun Hou, Sayipjamal Dulat, Jun Gao, Marco Guzzi, Joey Huston, Pavel Nadolsky, Carl Schmidt, Jan Winter, Keping Xie, C.-P. Yuan
Ct14 Intrinsic Charm Parton Distribution Functions From Cteq-Tea Global Analysis, Tie-Jiun Hou, Sayipjamal Dulat, Jun Gao, Marco Guzzi, Joey Huston, Pavel Nadolsky, Carl Schmidt, Jan Winter, Keping Xie, C.-P. Yuan
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We investigate the possibility of a (sizable) nonperturbative contribution to the charm parton distribution function (PDF) in a nucleon, theoretical issues arising in its interpretation, and its potential impact on LHC scattering processes. The “fitted charm” PDF obtained in various QCD analyses contains a process-dependent component that is partly traced to power-suppressed radiative contributions in DIS and is generally different at the LHC. We discuss separation of the universal component of the nonperturbative charm from the rest of the radiative contributions and estimate its magnitude in the CT14 global QCD analysis at the next-to-next-to leading order in the QCD coupling …