Charm and bottom photoproduction at HERA with MC@NLO
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2011-09-13 v1
Abstract
We apply the MC@NLO formalism to the production of heavy-quark pairs in pointlike photon-hadron collisions. By combining this result with its analogue relevant to hadron-hadron collisions, we obtain NLO predictions matched to parton showers for the photoproduction of QQ^{-} pairs. We compare MC@NLO results to the measurements of c- and b-flavoured hadron observables performed by the H1 and ZEUS collaborations at HERA.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1106.1614,
title = {Charm and bottom photoproduction at HERA with MC@NLO},
author = {Tobias Toll and Stefano Frixione},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1106.1614},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
20 pages, 27 figures