Heavy flavour production in ep collisions at HERA

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Autor(a) principal: Keramidas,Avraam A.
Data de Publicação: 2007
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Brazilian Journal of Physics
Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-97332007000500016
Resumo: Heavy flavour quarks in ep collisions are produced mostly from pair-production through a fusion of a virtual photon and a gluon from the proton. Therefore, the production cross sections provide information on the gluon distribution in the proton. The presence of a hard scale from the heavy quark mass, in principle, ensures that the cross sections are calculable through pQCD. Measurements in ep collisions, however, show that the calculations reasonably agree with the data in general, but underestimate the cross sections in some regions of phase space.
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Heavy flavour production in ep collisions at HERA
title Heavy flavour production in ep collisions at HERA
spellingShingle Heavy flavour production in ep collisions at HERA
Keramidas,Avraam A.
Charm cross sections
Beauty cross sections
ep scattering
c fragmentation
Proton structure functions
title_short Heavy flavour production in ep collisions at HERA
title_full Heavy flavour production in ep collisions at HERA
title_fullStr Heavy flavour production in ep collisions at HERA
title_full_unstemmed Heavy flavour production in ep collisions at HERA
title_sort Heavy flavour production in ep collisions at HERA
author Keramidas,Avraam A.
author_facet Keramidas,Avraam A.
author_role author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Keramidas,Avraam A.
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Charm cross sections
Beauty cross sections
ep scattering
c fragmentation
Proton structure functions
topic Charm cross sections
Beauty cross sections
ep scattering
c fragmentation
Proton structure functions
description Heavy flavour quarks in ep collisions are produced mostly from pair-production through a fusion of a virtual photon and a gluon from the proton. Therefore, the production cross sections provide information on the gluon distribution in the proton. The presence of a hard scale from the heavy quark mass, in principle, ensures that the cross sections are calculable through pQCD. Measurements in ep collisions, however, show that the calculations reasonably agree with the data in general, but underestimate the cross sections in some regions of phase space.
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