Inclusive production of two rapidity-separated heavy quarks as a probe of BFKL dynamics
Authors
Andrèe Dafne Bolognino, Francesco Giovanni Celiberto, Michael Fucilla, Dmitry Yu. Ivanov, Beatrice Murdaca, Alessandro Papa
Abstract
The inclusive photoproduction of two heavy quarks, separated by a large rapidity interval, is proposed as a new channel for the manifestation of the Balitsky-Fadin-Kuraev-Lipatov (BFKL) dynamics. The extension to the hadroproduction case is also discussed.