Revisiting the D-meson hadroproduction in general-mass variable flavour number scheme

Apr 10, 2018
28 pages
Published in:
  • JHEP 05 (2018) 196
  • Published: May 30, 2018
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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 D0^{0}-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