Heavy Quark Production at the TEVATRON in the Semihard QCD Approach and the Unintegrated Gluon Distribution

TL;DR

This paper analyzes heavy quark production at TEVATRON energies using the semihard QCD approach with BFKL gluon dynamics, comparing theoretical predictions with experimental data.

Contribution

It introduces a detailed analysis of heavy quark production using unintegrated gluon distributions within the semihard QCD framework, emphasizing BFKL dynamics.

Findings

Theoretical p_T distributions match experimental data reasonably well.

Different unintegrated gluon distributions significantly affect predictions.

The approach provides insights into gluon dynamics at high energies.

Abstract

Processes of heavy quark production at TEVATRON energies are considered using the semihard (k_T factorization) QCD approach with emphasis of the BFKL dynamics of gluon distributions. We investigate the dependence of the p_T distribution of heavy quark production (presented in the form of integrated cross-sections) on different forms of the unintegrated gluon distribution. The theoretical results are compared with recent D0 and CDF experimental data on beauty production.