Heavy quarks in charged-current deep inelastic scattering: a systematic phenomenological study

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We present a systematic QCD analysis of the strange--charm and bottom--top contributions to transverse and longitudinal structure functions in charged--current deep inelastic scattering. Various O(αₛ¹) schemes are studied and compared. The dependence of their predictions on the factorization scale μ² is investigated. The theoretical uncertainties resulting from the choice of the scheme and of μ² are estimated.