Inclusive Charmed-Meson Production at the CERN LHC

TL;DR

This paper provides next-to-leading order predictions for inclusive charmed-meson production at the CERN LHC, comparing with existing data and highlighting the importance of large rapidity measurements to understand intrinsic charm models.

Contribution

It offers detailed NLO predictions within the GM-VFNS framework and discusses how future measurements can constrain intrinsic charm models.

Findings

Predictions align with existing data where available.

Large rapidity measurements can help distinguish intrinsic charm models.

Provides a framework for future experimental comparisons.

Abstract

We present predictions for the inclusive production of charmed hadrons at the CERN LHC in the general-mass variable-flavor-number scheme at next-to-leading order. Detailed numerical results are compared to data where available, or presented in a way to ease future comparisons with experimental results. We also point out that measurements at large rapidity have the potential to pin down models of intrinsic charm.