Heavy flavour production in pp collisions and intrinsic quark components in proton

2012/12/27 by G. I. Lykasov, Lykasov, G. I., A. A. Grinyuk +3
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1212.6381

12 pages, 8 figures, contributed to the HSQCD-2012, Gatchina, Russia, July 4-8, 2012 and the ISHEPP-2012, September 10 -15, 2012, JINR, Dubna, Russia

arxiv created 2013/01/15 · arxiv updated 2013/01/16

Abstract

The LHC data on the forward heavy flavour hadron production can be a new unique source for estimation of intrinsic heavy quark contributions to the proton. We discuss in detail the D-meson production in pp collisions at the LHC including the intrinsic charm in the proton. We present also some predictions for the K-meson production in the pp collision at the initial energies 158 GeV and 7 TeV made within the perturbative QCD including the intrinsic strangeness in the proton that can be verified in the NA61 experiment and at LHC.

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