Combined HERA data on charm production in deep-inelastic scattering have previously been used to determine the charm-quark running mass m c ( m c ) in the MS ￣ renormalisation scheme. Here, the same data are used as a function of the photon virtuality Q 2 to evaluate the charm-quark running mass at different scales to one-loop order, in the context of a next-to-leading order QCD analysis. The scale dependence of the mass is found to be consistent with QCD expectations.
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