Heavy quark structure functions F2qq¯(x,Q2) and FLqq¯(x,Q2) at the NLO approximation

Abstract

We provide compact formulas for the heavy quarks structure functions $F^{q\bar{q}}_{2}(x, Q^{2})$ and $F^{q\bar{q}}_{L}(x, Q^{2})$, with $q = c, b$ and $t$, in $e^{-}p$ interaction with respect to the behavior of the gluon density at the next-to-leading order (NLO) approximation and present ratios $R ^{q\bar{q}} = F^{q\bar{q}}_{L} /F^{q\bar{q}}_{2}$ for these quarks. To do this, we obtain a fitted form of the heavy quark coefficient functions for deep-inelastic lepton-hadron scattering at a wide range of $Q^{2}$ values. The obtained numerical results are compared with experimental data from HERA and with the results from the KLN model and the MSTW2008 predictions.