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Open charm production and low x gluons

E. G. de Oliveira, A. D. Martin, and M. G. Ryskin
Phys. Rev. D 97, 074021 – Published 20 April 2018

Abstract

We compare the rapidity, y, and the beam energy, s, behaviors of the cross section of the data for D meson production in the forward direction that were measured by the LHCb Collaboration. We describe the observed cross sections using NLO perturbative QCD, and choose the optimal factorization scale for the LO contribution which provides the resummation of the large double logarithms. We emphasize the inconsistency observed in the y and s behaviors of the D meson cross sections. The y behavior indicates a very flat x dependence of the gluon PDF in the unexplored low x region around x105. However, to describe the s dependence of the data we need a steeper gluon PDF with decreasing x. Moreover, an even steeper behavior is needed to provide an extrapolation which matches on to the well known gluons found in the global PDF analyses for x103. The possible role of nonperturbative effects is briefly discussed.

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  • Received 20 December 2017

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.97.074021

Published by the American Physical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. Further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the published article’s title, journal citation, and DOI. Funded by SCOAP3.

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Particles & Fields

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E. G. de Oliveira1, A. D. Martin2, and M. G. Ryskin2,3

  • 1Departamento de Física, CFM, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, C.P. 476, CEP 88.040-900, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil
  • 2Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology, University of Durham, Durham DH1 3LE, United Kingdom
  • 3Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute, NRC Kurchatov Institute, Gatchina, St. Petersburg 188300, Russia

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Vol. 97, Iss. 7 — 1 April 2018

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