Revisiting the D-meson hadroproduction in general-mass variable flavour number scheme
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Abstract: (Springer)
We introduce a novel realization of the open heavy-flavour hadroproduction in general-mass variable flavour number scheme at next-to-leading order in perturbative QCD. The principal novelty with respect to the earlier works is in the treatment of small-transverse-momentum limit, which has been a particularly challenging kinematic region in the past. We show that by a suitable choice of scheme, it is possible to obtain a well-behaved description of the open heavy-flavour hadroproduction cross sections from zero up to asymptotically high transverse momentum. We contrast our calculation with the available D-meson data as measured by the LHCb and ALICE collaborations at the LHC, finding a very good agreement within the theoretical and experimental uncertainties. We also compare our framework with other theoretical approaches.Note:
- The published version
- Open heavy-flavour production
- QCD
- hadron colliders
- parton distribution functions
- QCD Phenomenology
- heavy quark: hadroproduction
- meson: hadroproduction
- transverse momentum: high
- quantum chromodynamics: perturbation theory
- higher-order: 1
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