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F c2 at low x

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We study the heavy-quark contributions to the proton structure function F 2(x,Q 2) at next-to-leading order using compact formulas at small values of Bjorken’s x variable. The formulas provide a good agreement with the modern HERA data for F c2 (x,Q 2).

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Illarionov, A.Y., Kotikov, A.V. F c2 at low x . Phys. Atom. Nuclei 75, 1234–1239 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063778812100092

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