Nov 25 – 29, 2019
University of Pavia
Europe/Rome timezone

Heavy-quark production with kt-factorization: The importance of the sea-quark distribution

Nov 26, 2019, 3:00 PM
20m
Aula Foscolo (University of Pavia)

Aula Foscolo

University of Pavia

Via Strada Nuova 65, Pavia

Speaker

Benjamin Guiot (Universidad federico santa maria)

Description

Heavy-quark production is of first importance at the LHC, allowing to test factorization formulas, and to probe cold and hot nuclear matter. In the first part of the presentation, I will quickly review heavy-quark production in the case of the collinear factorization, making some useful remarks for the second part of the talk. Then, I will switch to heavy-quark production with kt-factorization. The main goal is to discuss the fact that present calculations take into account only the gluon-gluon contribution. I will show that, in fact, in the case of a variable-flavor-number scheme (commonly used at the LHC), the main contribution is given by the $Qg\rightarrow Qg$ contribution. The most interesting part is the answer to the following question: Why current studies are in agreement with data if they neglect the main contribution? We will see that the answer is not unique. (This work has been published in PRD 99, 074006).

Primary author

Benjamin Guiot (Universidad federico santa maria)

Presentation materials