Abstract

We investigate the heavy quark mass effects on the virtual photon structure to the next-to-leading order (NLO) in QCD. Our formalism is based on the parton picture as well as on the operator product expansion in the framework of the mass-independent renormalization group equation. We evaluate the various components of the parton distribution functions inside the virtual photon in the presence of the heavy quark mass effects.

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