arXiv:0911.2662·v1·High Energy Physics — Phenomenology
Exclusive central production of heavy quarks at the LHC
G. Chachamis🇨🇭 · M. Hentschinski🇪🇸 · A. Sabio Vera🇪🇸 · C. Salas🇪🇸
Abstract
We study the exclusive production of heavy flavors at central rapidities in hadron-hadron collisions within the kT factorisation formalism. Since this involves regions of small Bjorken x in the unintegrated gluon densities, we include the next-to-leading order BFKL contributions working directly in transverse momentum representation. Our results are presented in a form suitable for Monte Carlo implementation.
Comments: 10 pages, 1 figure