2021/03/23 by Marat Siddikov, Iván Schmidt
Physics and Astronomy · #Classical mechanics #Collider #Hadron #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Kinematics #Meson #Nuclear physics #Observable #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quantum mechanics #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.104.016032
published as Phys. Rev. D 104, 016032 (2021) · 12 pages, 8 figures
arxiv created 2021/03/23 · openalex created_date 2021/03/29 · openalex publication_date 2021/07/30 · arxiv updated 2021/08/04 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
In this paper, we study the electroproduction of open heavy flavor D and B mesons in the kinematics of future ep colliders, such as the Electron Ion Collider (EIC), the Large Hadron electron Collider (LHeC), and the Future Circular Collider (FCC-he). We study in detail the dependence of the cross sections on multiplicity of coproduced hadrons, in view of its possible sensitivity to contributions from multi-Pomeron contributions, and discuss different observables which might be used for its study. According to our theoretical expectations, in ep collisions the multi-Pomeron contributions are small in the EIC kinematics, although they might be sizable at LHeC and FCC-he. We also provide theoretical predictions for the production cross sections of heavy mesons in the kinematics of all the above-mentioned ep colliders.