Charm and bottom production in inclusive double Pomeron exchange in heavy-ion collisions at energies available at the CERN Large Hadron Collider

2010/08/31 by M. B. Gay Ducati, M. M. Machado, M. V. T. Machado
Physics and Astronomy · #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #hep-ph #nucl-ex #nucl-th

paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevc.83.014903

published as Phys.Rev.C83:014903,2011 · 7 pages, 3 tables. Final version to be published in Physical Review C

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Abstract

The inclusive double Pomeron exchange cross section for heavy-quark pair production is calculated for nucleus-nucleus collisions at the Large Hadron Collider. The present estimate is based on hard diffractive factorization, corrected by absorptive corrections and nuclear effects. The theoretical uncertainties for nuclear collisions are investigated and a comparison to other approaches is presented. The production channels giving a similar final state configuration are discussed as well.

Citations

• Coherent γγ and γA interactions in very peripheral collisions at relativistic ion colliders
• Effects of shadowing in double Pomeron exchange processes
• Exclusivebb¯pair production and irreducible background to the exclusive Higgs boson production
• PHYSICS OF ULTRA-PERIPHERAL NUCLEAR COLLISIONS