Heavy quark photoproduction in the semihard QCD approach and the unintegrated gluon distribution

Abstract

Processes of heavy quark photoproduction at HERA energies are considered using the semihard (k_T factorization) QCD approach with emphasis of the BFKL dynamics of gluon distributions. We investigate the dependences of the total cross section of heavy quark photoproduction and also p_T, and rapidity distributions on different forms of the unintegrated gluon distribution. We present a comparision of the theoretical results with available H1 and ZEUS experimental data for charm and beauty photoproductions.

Comments: LaTeX2e, 9 pages plus 10 figs using epsfig.sty