Invariant mass distributions for heavy quark-antiquark pairs in deep inelastic electroproduction

Abstract

We have completed the $\mathcal{O}({\alpha }_s)$ QCD corrections to exclusive heavy quark-antiquark distributions in deep inelastic electroproduction and present here the differential distributions in the masses of charm-anticharm and bottom-antibottom pairs at the electron-proton collider HERA.

Comments: Submitted to Phys. Lett. B, 10 pages LaTeX plus 8 figures attached as a uuencoded compressed tarred Postscript file. Complete Postsript version, including figures, available at ftp://insti.physics.sunysb.edu/preprints/harris/eplett.tar.Z(.gz)