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. Zotov41 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 (
kt-factorization) approach, we analyze
the
various charm production processes in the kinematic region covered
by
the HERA experiments.
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