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HK: Physik der Hadronen und Kerne

HK 34: Elektromagnetische und Hadronische Sonden

HK 34.5: Talk

Wednesday, March 22, 2006, 18:00–18:15, F

Production of heavy quarks in hadron-hadron collisions — •Johann Riedl, Marco Stratmann, and Andreas Schäfer — Universität Regensburg, 93040 Regensburg

The production of heavy quarks in polarised proton-proton collisions at BNL-RHIC is one of the processes which can give information about the currently largely unconstrained gluon polarisation Δ g in the nucleon. For this purpose the calculation of the relevant cross sections in next-to-leading order of QCD perturbation theory is presented. The difference of the differential cross sections for the production of heavy quarks and antiquarks, the so-called charge asymmetry, is directly sensitive to next-to-leading order corrections. Phenomenological studies for BNL-RHIC, LHC and TeVatron are given.

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