Next-to-Leading Order QCD Corrections to Inclusive Heavy-Flavor Production in Polarized Deep-Inelastic Scattering

Understand

We provide a first calculation of the complete next-to-leading order QCD corrections for heavy flavor contributions to the inclusive structure function $g_1$ in longitudinally polarized deep-inelastic scattering.

• The results are derived with largely analytical methods and retain the full dependence on the heavy quark's mass.
• We discuss all relevant technical details of the calculation and present numerical results for the heavy quark scaling functions.
• We perform important crosschecks to verify our results in the known limit of photoproduction and for the unpolarized electroproduction of heavy quarks.