Forward production of heavy flavour hadrons in p-p collisions and intrinsic charm and bottom in proton

TL;DR

This paper investigates forward production of heavy flavor hadrons in proton-proton collisions at LHC energies, exploring the potential to learn about intrinsic charm and bottom quark components in the proton through theoretical modeling.

Contribution

It introduces a theoretical analysis of Lambda_b production using the quark gluon string model to probe intrinsic heavy quark content in the proton.

Findings

Provides predictions for Lambda_b production at LHC energies.

Discusses the potential to extract information on intrinsic charm and bottom.

Connects heavy flavor production to Regge trajectories of (b{ar b}) mesons.

Abstract

We present the theoretical results on the forward Lambda_b production in pp collisions obtained within the soft QCD, namely the quark gluon string model, at LHC energies. It can give us useful information on the Regge trajectories of the (b{\bar b}) mesons. An opportunity to find the information on the intrinsic charm and bottom in the proton by analyzing the forward heavy flavour hadron production in pp collisions is discussed.