Heavy Quark Production in the Semihard QCD Approach at HERA and Beyond

Abstract

Processes of heavy quark production at HERA, TEVATRON and THERA energies are considered using the semihard ($k_T$ factorization) QCD approach with emphasis on the BFKL dynamics of gluon distributions.

Comments: 4 pages, 5 figures, To appear in Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Deep Inelastic Scattering (DIS2001), Bologna, Italy, 27 Apr. - 1 May 2001