QCD Estimates for Heavy Particle Production

Oct, 1977
65 pages
Published in:
  • Phys.Rev.D 18 (1978) 162
Report number:
  • ANL-HEP-PR-77-68

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Abstract: (APS)
The associated production of hadrons containing heavy quarks is studied in the framework of a model based on quark-gluon color gauge field theory [quantum chromodynamics (QCD)]. We assume that the dominant mechanism for the production of heavy quarks in real and virtual photon beams is γ(Q2)V→cc¯ where V denotes a vector gluon and c an arbitrary heavy quark. For π, p, and p¯ beams we consider the mechanisms VV→cc¯ and qq¯→cc¯. The cross sections for the internal subprocesses are calculated at lowest order in the perturbation expansion for QCD. We include a brief discussion of higher-order corrections to our calculation.
  • QUARK: CHARM
  • QUARK: FLAVOR
  • heavy quark
  • HADRON: ASSOCIATED PRODUCTION
  • MODEL: ASSOCIATED PRODUCTION
  • QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS
  • QUARK GLUON
  • PHOTON HADRON: INTERACTION
  • INTERACTION: PHOTON HADRON
  • MODEL: VECTOR DOMINANCE