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Quantum coherence in heavy-flavor production on nuclei

N. N. Nikolaev, G. Piller, B. G. Zakharov

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/9412344

Abstract

We describe a light-cone wave function formalism for hadroproduction of heavy-flavors via gluon-gluon fusion. The developed approach is well suited to address coherence effects in heavy-quark production on nuclei at small x2 0.1· A-1/3. Nuclear attenuation in hadroproduction of heavy-flavors is found to be similar to shadowing effects for heavy-flavor structure functions in deep-inelastic scattering from nuclei. Nevertheless, remaining differences in the theoretical formulation of both processes imply corrections to factorization theorems.

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