Importance of the heavy-quarks longitudinal structure function measurements at future circular collider energies

TL;DR

This paper analyzes the significance of heavy-quark longitudinal structure function ratios at future collider energies, highlighting their behavior, agreement with existing data, and importance for upcoming experiments like LHeC and FCC-eh.

Contribution

It introduces a detailed study of heavy-quark structure function ratios at low x, extending previous HERA data to future collider energies and comparing results across different collider configurations.

Findings

Ratios align well with HERA data

Heavy-quark ratios increase with energy at future colliders

Top quark structure function ratios depend on inelasticity y

Abstract

In this article, we consider the ratio of structure functions for heavy quark pair production at low values of $x$. The importance of this ratio for charm and beauty pair production is examined according to the Hadron Electron Ring Accelerator (HERA) data. The behavior of these ratios considers due to the hard-pomeron behavior of the gluon distribution function. The results are in good agreement with respect to the HERA data. Expanding this data to the range of new energies underscore the importance of these measurements for heavy quarks. The ratio of charm and beauty structure functions at the proposed Large Hadron electron Collider (LHeC) is considered as a function of invariant center-of-mass energy. For top pair production this ratio is extracted with known kinematics of the LHeC and Future Circular Collider electron-hadron (FCC-eh) colliders. Comparison of the results obtained for the ratio of top structure functions in LHeC and FCC-eh are proportional to the specified inelasticity $y$ range.