Prospects of Open Charm Production at GSI-FAIR and J-PARC

TL;DR

This paper evaluates the potential for studying open charm production at upcoming GSI-FAIR and J-PARC facilities, focusing on differential cross sections and spin asymmetries with next-to-leading order precision.

Contribution

It provides a detailed phenomenological analysis of open charm production prospects at GSI-FAIR and J-PARC, including theoretical uncertainty estimates.

Findings

Differential cross sections are calculated for open charm production.

Charge and double-spin asymmetries are analyzed at NLO accuracy.

Theoretical uncertainties are quantified by parameter variations.

Abstract

We present a detailed phenomenological study of the prospects of open charm physics at the future $\bar{p}p$ and $pp$ facilities GSI-FAIR and J-PARC, respectively. In particular, we concentrate on differential cross sections and the charge and longitudinal double-spin asymmetries at next-to-leading order accuracy. Theoretical uncertainties for the proposed observables are estimated by varying the charm quark mass and the renormalization and factorization scales.