Heavy quark production inγPinteractions at hadronic colliders

Abstract

The diffractive heavy quark cross sections are estimated considering photon-Pomeron (γIP ) interactions in hadron -hadron at RHIC, Tevatron, and CERN LHC energies. We assume the validity of the hard diffractive factorization and calculate the charm and bottom total cross sections and rapidity distributions using the diffractive parton distribution functions of the Pomeron obtained by the H1 Collaboration at DESY-HERA. Moreover, we compare our predictions with those obtained using the dipole model. We verify that this process is a good test of the different mechanisms for diffractive heavy quark production at hadron -hadron colliders.

Top quark pair production in the exclusive processes at the LHC

“…For a similar analysis of charm and bottom production in γP and PP interactions see, e.g., Refs. [23][24][25]. Our predictions for the tt production could potentially be sensitive to the Pomeron gluon distribution at large values of β and μ 2 , beyond the kinematical range probed by HERA.…”

Inelastic quarkonium photoproduction in hadron-hadron interactions at LHC energies

“…Refs. [2][3][4]). Recent experimental results from CDF [5] at Tevatron, STAR [6] and PHENIX [7] at RHIC and ALICE [8] and LHCb [9] at LHC have demonstrated that the study of coherent interactions in these colliders is feasible and that the data can be used to constrain the description of the hadronic structure at high energies.…”

Heavy quark production in photon-Pomeron interactions at high energies

“…It can be obtained by the convolution of the Pomeron flux f IP (x IP ) and the gluon distribution in the Pomeron g IP (ȕ, 2 ), as showed at [1]. The cross section for the photon-gluon fusion is given at leading order by…”