Abstract
The associated production of hadrons containing heavy quarks is studied in the framework of a model based on quark-gluon color gauge field theory [quantum chromodynamics (QCD)]. We assume that the dominant mechanism for the production of heavy quarks in real and virtual photon beams is where denotes a vector gluon and an arbitrary heavy quark. For , , and beams we consider the mechanisms and . The cross sections for the internal subprocesses are calculated at lowest order in the perturbation expansion for QCD. We include a brief discussion of higher-order corrections to our calculation.
- Received 21 November 1977
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.18.162
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