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Title: The physics of heavy quark distributions in hadrons: Collider tests

Journal Article · · Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics
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  1. SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
  2. Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Moscow Region (Russia)
  3. Comenius Univ. in Bratislava (Slovakia)

Here, we present a review of the current understanding of the heavy quark distributions in the nucleon and their impact on collider physics. The origin of strange, charm and bottom quark pairs at high light-front (LF) momentum fractions in hadron wavefunction—the “intrinsic” quarks, is reviewed. The determination of heavy-quark parton distribution functions (PDFs) is particularly significant for the analysis of hard processes at LHC energies. We show that a careful study of the inclusive production of open charm and the production of γ/Z/W particles, accompanied by the heavy jets at large transverse momenta can give essential information on the intrinsic heavy quark (IQ) distributions. We also focus on the theoretical predictions concerning other observables which are very sensitive to the intrinsic charm contribution to PDFs including Higgs production at high xF and novel fixed target measurements which can be tested at the LHC.

Research Organization:
SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP)
Grant/Contract Number:
AC02-76SF00515; DE–AC02–76SF00515 SLAC-PUB-16844
OSTI ID:
1339544
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1397478
Report Number(s):
SLAC-PUB-16844; arXiv:1612.01351; TRN: US1701129
Journal Information:
Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, Vol. 93, Issue C; ISSN 0146-6410
Publisher:
ElsevierCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 11 works
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