Open charm production in diffractive ep collisions
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2015-06-25 v1
Abstract
The cross section for the diffractive reaction gamma* + p -> c cbar + p with a real or virtual photon is calculated in the nonperturbative two-gluon exchange model of Landshoff and Nachtmann. Numerical predictions are given for cross sections and spectra at typical HERA values of c.m. energy and photon virtuality. The contribution of charm to the diffractive structure function is evaluated and found to be rather small in the model, and the ratio between the production rates for b bbar and c cbar is tiny.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9701252,
title = {Open charm production in diffractive ep collisions},
author = {M. Diehl},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9701252},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
16 pages including 7 figures, Latex2e, uses epsf.sty