Production of massless charm jets in pp collisions at next-to-leading order of QCD

TL;DR

This paper provides theoretical predictions for charm jet production in proton-proton collisions at 7 TeV, highlighting the potential to test intrinsic charm content at high transverse momentum and rapidity.

Contribution

It introduces next-to-leading order QCD calculations for charm jet production using various CTEQ PDFs, including those with intrinsic charm, to explore observable effects.

Findings

Intrinsic charm effects become significant at high jet transverse momentum.

Predictions vary depending on the PDF set used.

Potential to experimentally test intrinsic charm content.

Abstract

We present predictions for the inclusive production of charm jets in proton-proton collisions at 7 TeV. Several CTEQ parton distribution functions (PDFs) of the CTEQ6.6M type are employed, where two of the CTEQ6.6 PDFs have intrinsic charm. At large enough jet transverse momentum and large jet rapidity, the intrinsic charm content can be tested.