Charmed and bottomed hadronic cross sections from a statistical model

TL;DR

This paper extends a statistical model to include charmed and bottomed hadrons, fitting quark creation probabilities using low energy data, and applies it to various hadronic collision processes involving heavy quarks.

Contribution

The work introduces a comprehensive statistical model incorporating heavy quarks, calibrated with experimental data, to predict hadronic cross sections involving charm and bottom quarks.

Findings

Model successfully fits quark creation probabilities for all quark types.

Provides predictions for heavy quark production in various collision types.

Model is applicable from a few GeV to tens of GeV energies.

Abstract

In this work, we extended our statistical model with charmed and bottomed hadrons, and fit the quark creational probabilities for the heavy quarks, using low energy inclusive charmonium and bottomonium data. With the finalized fit for all the relevant types of quarks (up, down, strange, charm, bottom) at the energy range from a few GeV up to a few tens of GeV's, the model is now considered complete. Some examples are also given for proton-proton, pion-proton, and proton-antiproton collisions with charmonium, bottomonium, and open charm hadrons in the final state.