Implications of recent progress in heavy-quark hadroproduction

TL;DR

This paper reviews recent theoretical advances in heavy-quark hadro-production, especially charm-quarks, and explores their implications across collider and astroparticle physics.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of recent progress in heavy-quark production theories and discusses their impact on various areas of particle phenomenology.

Findings

Enhanced understanding of charm-quark production mechanisms

Implications for collider experiment predictions

Relevance to astroparticle physics models

Abstract

We discuss recent theoretical progress in heavy-quark hadro-production, in particular focusing on processes involving charm-quarks, and on their implications in different fields of particle phenomenology, from collider to astroparticle physics.