Implementation of DIS at N3LO for PDF determination
Abstract
In this work we construct an accurate description of Deep-Inelastic Scattering (DIS) at third order in perturbative QCD that is valid at all energy scales. We do so by assembling massless and massive results in a variable flavour number scheme, performing a careful power counting of the various contributions. We also propose an improved approximation for the massive neutral-current DIS coefficient function at order αs3, whose construction is validated against lower order results. These results are instrumental for state-of-the-art next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order fits of parton distribution functions.
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