High-energy signals from heavy-flavor physics

TL;DR

This paper investigates high-energy phenomena in heavy-flavor physics using a hybrid factorization approach that combines energy logarithm resummation with collinear parton densities and fragmentation functions.

Contribution

It introduces a novel framework integrating next-to-leading energy logarithm resummation with collinear factorization for heavy-flavor observables.

Findings

Demonstrates the effectiveness of the hybrid approach in describing high-energy heavy-flavor data.

Provides predictions for observables sensitive to high-energy dynamics in heavy-flavor production.

Highlights the importance of resummation techniques in heavy-flavor phenomenology.

Abstract

Working in the hybrid high-energy/collinear factorization, where the next-to-leading resummation of energy logarithms is combined with collinear parton densities and fragmentation functions, we study observables sensitive to high-energy dynamics in the context of heavy-flavor physics.