Heavy Flavour Production at HERA

TL;DR

This paper reviews recent experimental results from ZEUS and H1 on charm quark production at HERA, including photoproduction and the proton structure function, providing insights into heavy flavour production mechanisms.

Contribution

It presents new measurements of charm production processes at HERA, enhancing understanding of heavy flavour dynamics in ep collisions.

Findings

Measurements of elastic and inelastic J/ψ photoproduction

Differential cross sections for D* photoproduction

First insights into the proton structure function F_2^{car{c}}

Abstract

Recent results from the experiments ZEUS and H1 on charm production in $ep$ collisions are reviewed. The topics are elastic and inelastic $J/\psi$ photoproduction, $D^*$ photoproduction differential cross sections and a first look at the proton structure function F_2^{c\bar{c}}.