Heavy Quark Production at HERA

TL;DR

This paper reviews recent results on heavy quark production at HERA, highlighting the use of microvertex detectors in identifying heavy flavour events and summarizing key experimental findings.

Contribution

It presents new experimental results on heavy quark production at HERA using advanced microvertex detectors, enhancing the understanding of heavy flavour physics.

Findings

Successful implementation of microvertex detectors in H1 and ZEUS

Improved identification of heavy flavour production

Summary of recent experimental results

Abstract

Heavy flavour production is one of the key components of the HERA II physics programme. While most of the results presented use leptons or the reconstruction of charmed mesons to identify heavy flavour production, both the H1 and ZEUS experiments now have working microvertex detectors that are being used more and more. In this talk I will summarise a selection of the recent results obtained by the two collaborations.