Open charm hadroproduction and the charm content of the proton
- II. Institut fuer Theoretische Physik, Universitaet Hamburg, Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg (Germany)
We advocate charmed-hadron inclusive hadroproduction as a laboratory to probe intrinsic charm (IC) inside the colliding hadrons. Working at next-to-leading order in the general-mass variable-flavor-number scheme endowed with nonperturbative fragmentation functions recently extracted from a global fit to e{sup +}e{sup -} annihilation data from KEKB, CESR, and LEP1, we first assess the sensitivity of Tevatron data of D{sup 0}, D{sup +}, and D*{sup +} inclusive production to the IC parametrizations provided by Pumplin et al. We then argue that similar data from pp collisions at RHIC would have the potential to discriminate between different IC models provided they reach out to sufficiently large values of transverse momentum.
- OSTI ID:
- 21308413
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 79, Issue 9; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.79.094009; (c) 2009 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0556-2821
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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