Eur. Phys. J. A (2017) 53: 220
https://doi.org/10.1140/epja/i2017-12405-4

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Impact of beauty and charm H1-ZEUS combined measurements on PDFs and determination of the strong coupling

¹ National Foundation of Elites, P. O. Box 14578-93111, Tehran, Iran
² Faculty of Physics, Semnan University, P. O. Box 35131-19111, Semnan, Iran

^* e-mail: vafaee.phy@gmail.com

Received: 2 May 2017
Accepted: 5 October 2017
Published online: 21 November 2017

Abstract

In this QCD analysis, we investigate the impact of recent measurements of heavy-flavor charm and beauty cross sections data sets on the simultaneous determination of Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs) and the strong coupling, . We perform three different fits based on Variable-Flavour Number Scheme (VFNS) at the Leading Order (LO) and Next-to-Leading Order (NLO) and choose the full HERA run I and II combined data as a new measurement of inclusive Deep Inelastic Scattering (DIS) cross sections for our base data set. We show that including charm and beauty cross sections data reduces the uncertainty of gluon distribution and improves the fit quality up to 4.1% from leading order to next-to-leading order and up to 1.7% for only NLO without and with beauty and charm data contributions.