FIZIKA B 17 (2008) 2, 293 - 298

 

MONITORING OF CHARMED AND BEAUTY QUARK DISTRIBUTIONS IN PROTON AT LHC

G. I. LYKASOVa,b and V. A. BEDNYAKOVb

aJoint Institute for Nuclear Research, 141980, Dubna, Russia
bInstitute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia
E-mail addresses: lykasov@jinr.ru   Vadim.Bednyakov@jinr.ru

Received 21 November 2007;     Accepted 20 February 2008
Online 20 June 2008

A short review on charmed and beauty hadron production in the lepton deep inelastic scattering off proton, in proton-proton and proton-antiproton collisions at high energies is presented. It is shown that the existing theoretical and experimental information on charmed and beauty quark distributions in a proton is not satisfactory. A procedure to study these distributions at LHC energies is suggested.

PACS numbers: 14.40.Lb;14.65.Dw;25.20.Lj
UDC 539.126

Keywords: charmed mesons, charmed quarks, cross-section