Monitoring of charmed and beauty quark distributions in proton at LHC

TL;DR

This paper reviews current knowledge on charm and beauty quark distributions in protons, highlighting gaps and proposing methods to study these distributions at LHC energies.

Contribution

It introduces a new procedure to investigate charm and beauty quark distributions in protons at LHC energies, addressing existing theoretical and experimental shortcomings.

Findings

Current data on quark distributions are unsatisfactory.

A proposed method for studying these distributions at LHC.

Highlights the need for improved measurements and models.

Abstract

A short review on charmed and beauty hadron production in the lepton deep inelastic scattering off proton, in proton-proton and proton-antiproton collisions at high energies is presented. It is shown that the existing theoretical and experimental information on charmed and beauty quark distributions in a proton is not satisfactory. A some procedure to study these distributions at LHC energies is suggested.