Nuclear charm and bottom production: a comparison among high energy approaches

Abstract

We calculate the nucleon and nuclear photoproduction cross sections for heavy quarks within the $k_{\perp }$-factorization formalism, considering the current high energy approaches which include nuclear and saturation effects. Our results demonstrate that a future experimental analysis of this process would allow to constraint the QCD dynamics at high energies.

10 pages, 2 figures. Version to be published in Eur. Phys. J. C

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