Diffractive photoproduction of heavy quarks in hadronic collisions
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2008-11-26 v2
Abstract
In this letter we study the diffractive photoproduction of heavy quarks in hadronic (pp/pA/AA) interactions for Tevatron and LHC energies. The integrated cross section and rapidity distribution for the process h_1 h_2 --> h_1 h_2 QQBAR (h_i = p,A and Q = c,b) are estimated using the Color Glass Condensate (CGC) formalism. Our results indicate that this production channel has larger cross sections than the competing reactions of double diffractive production and coherent AA reactions initiated by two-photon collisions.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0612265,
title = {Diffractive photoproduction of heavy quarks in hadronic collisions},
author = {V. P. Goncalves and M. V. T. Machado},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0612265},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
4 pages, 2 figures, 1 table. Version to be published in Physical Review D