https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-7392-1
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
High-energy resummation in heavy-quark pair hadroproduction
1
Dipartimento di Fisica, Università della Calabria, 87036, Arcavacata di Rende, Cosenza, Italy
2
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Gruppo Collegato di Cosenza, 87036, Arcavacata di Rende, Cosenza, Italy
3
Dipartimento di Fisica, Università degli Studi di Pavia, 27100, Pavia, Italy
4
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Pavia, 27100, Pavia, Italy
5
Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, 630090, Novosibirsk, Russia
6
Novosibirsk State University, 630090, Novosibirsk, Russia
* e-mail: francescogiovanni.celiberto@unipv.it
Received:
10
September
2019
Accepted:
10
October
2019
Published online:
18
November
2019
The inclusive hadroproduction of two heavy quarks, featuring a large separation in rapidity, is proposed as a novel probe channel of the Balitsky–Fadin–Kuraev–Lipatov (BFKL) approach. In a theoretical setup which includes full resummation of leading logarithms in the center-of-mass energy and partial resummation of the next-to-leading ones, predictions for the cross section and azimuthal coefficients are presented for kinematic configurations typical of current and possible future experimental analyses at the LHC.
© The Author(s), 2019
