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HEAVY QUARK PHOTOPRODUCTION IN THE SEMIHARD APPROACH AT HERA AND BEYOND

V. A. Saleev, N. P. Zotov

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/9505279

Abstract

Processes of heavy quark photoproduction at HERA energies and beyond are investigated using the semihard (k factorization) approach. Virtuality and longitudinal polarization of gluons in the photon - gluon subprocess as well as the saturation effects in the gluon distribution function at small x have been taken into account. The total cross sections, rapidity and p distributions of the charm and beauty quark photoproduction have been calculated. The results are compared with ZEUS experimental data for charm photoproduction cross section.

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