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Phenomenological study of charm photoproduction at HERA

S. Frixione, P. Nason

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/0201281

Abstract

We present predictions for single inclusive distributions of charmed mesons, relevant to the HERA experiments. Our results are based upon a computation that correctly incorporates mass effects up to the next-to-leading order level, and the resummation of transverse momentum logarithms up to next-to-leading-logarithmic level. We apply the same acceptance cuts as the H1 and Zeus experiments, and compare our results to their data. We perform a study of the sensitivity of our predictions on the charm mass, , factorization scale, renormalization scale, and fragmentation parameters.

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