Inclusive production of two rapidity-separated heavy quarks as a probe of BFKL dynamics

Abstract

The inclusive photoproduction of two heavy quarks, separated by a large rapidity interval, is proposed as a new channel for the manifestation of the Balitsky-Fadin-Kuraev-Lipatov (BFKL) dynamics. The extension to the hadroproduction case is also discussed.

Comments: 6 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables; contribution to the proceedings of the XXVII International Workshop on Deep Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects (DIS2019), Torino, Italy, 8-12 April, 2019; to appear on Proceedings of Science