Total Cross Sections for Heavy Flavour Production at HERA
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2008-11-26 v1
Abstract
We compute total cross sections for charm and bottom photoproduction at HERA energies, and discuss the relevant theoretical uncertainties. In particular we discuss the problems arising from the small- region, the uncertainties in the gluon parton density, and the uncertainties in the hadronic component of the cross section. Total electroproduction cross sections, calculated in the Weizs\"acker-Williams approximation, are also given.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9412348,
title = {Total Cross Sections for Heavy Flavour Production at HERA},
author = {S. Frixione and M. L. Mangano and P. Nason and G. Ridolfi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9412348},
year = {2008}
}
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