Eur. Phys. J. C 24, 425-437 (2002)
DOI: 10.1007/s10052-002-0957-3

A phenomenological interpretation of open charm production at HERA in terms of the semi-hard approach

S.P. Baranov¹, H. Jung², L. Jönsson², S. Padhi³ and N.P. Zotov<sup>4

1</sup>  Lebedev Institute of Physics, Leninsky prosp. 53, Moscow 117924, Russia
²  Department of Elementary Particle Physics, Lund University, 22100 Lund, Sweden
³  Department of Physics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec H3A 2T8, Canada
⁴  Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University, Moscow 119992, Russia

(Received: 4 March 2002 / Published online: 7 June 2002 )

Abstract
In the framework of the semi-hard ( k_t-factorization) approach, we analyze the various charm production processes in the kinematic region covered by the HERA experiments.

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