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hep-ph2025

Charm associated production of the pseudoscalar Higgs boson in the MCPM' at the LHC

Rafał Maciuła, Markos Maniatis, Otto Nachtmann +1

We discuss charm associated production of the pseudoscalar Higgs boson in the MCPM'. In our analysis we assume = 95.4 GeV, which corresponds to an enhancement obser…

hep-ph2025

Production of open and hidden charm in fixed-target experiments at the LHC

Antoni Szczurek, Anna Cisek, Rafal Maciula

We discuss the production of mesons and quarkonia in proton-nucleus collisions in the fixed-target LHCb experiment. We consider gluon-gluon fusion within -factorizat…

hep-ph2024

Production asymmetry of and mesons in the LHCb fixed target experiment and intrinsic charm in the nucleon

Antoni Szczurek, Rafał Maciuła

We discuss production of and mesons in proton-nucleus collisions in fixed target experiments. We include gluon-gluon fusion, intrinsic charm and perturbative rec…

hep-ph2024★ 1 cited

The asymmetric intrinsic charm in the nucleon and its implications for the production in the LHCb fixed-target experiment

Victor P. Goncalves, Rafal Maciula, Antoni Szczurek

Recent results indicate that charm quarks are intrinsic components of the proton wave function, and that the charm and anticharm distributions for a given value of the Bjorken - $x…

hep-ph2022★ 30 cited

Far-forward production of charm mesons and neutrinos at Forward Physics Facilities at the LHC and the intrinsic charm in the proton

Rafal Maciula, Antoni Szczurek

We discuss production of far-forward mesons/antimesons and neutrinos/antineutrinos from their semileptonic decays in pp-collisions at the LHC. We include the gluon-gluon fusion…

hep-ph2022★ 9 cited

Recombination mechanism for -meson production and production asymmetry in the LHCb fixed-target experiment

Rafal Maciula, Antoni Szczurek

We discuss production of neutral mesons in proton-proton collisions at the LHC (fixed target mode) in the framework of the BJM recombination model. We present rapidity and tran…

hep-ph2022★ 4 cited

Production of forward heavy-flavour dijets at the LHCb within -factorization approach

Rafal Maciula, Roman Pasechnik, Antoni Szczurek

We calculate differential cross sections for - and -dijet production in -scattering at TeV in the -factorization and hybrid approaches…

hep-ph2021★ 181 cited

The Forward Physics Facility: Sites, Experiments, and Physics Potential

Luis A. Anchordoqui, Akitaka Ariga, Tomoko Ariga +78

The Forward Physics Facility (FPF) is a proposal to create a cavern with the space and infrastructure to support a suite of far-forward experiments at the Large Hadron Collider dur…

hep-ph2021

Intrinsic charm in the nucleon and forward production of charm: a new constrain from IceCube Neutrino Observatory

Rafal Maciula, Victor P. Goncalves, Antoni Szczurek

The predictions for the atmospheric neutrino flux at high energies strongly depend on the contribution of prompt neutrinos, which are determined by the production of charmed meson…

hep-ph2021★ 1 cited

What is the mechanism of the tetraquark production?

A. Szczurek, R. Maciuła, W. Schäfer

We discuss the production mechanism of fully charm tetraquark, observed recently by the LHCb at M = 6.9 GeV in the channel. Both single parton scattering (SPS) and double…

hep-ph2021★ 10 cited

Impact of the LHCb fixed-target data on the intrinisic component in the nucleon

Rafal Maciula, Antoni Szczurek

We discuss the impact of the new LHCb fixed-target data for production on the intrinsic component in the nucleon wave function. Within…

hep-ph2021★ 10 cited

Impact of intrinsic charm amount in the nucleon and saturation effects on the prompt atmospheric flux for IceCube

Victor P. Goncalves, Rafal Maciula, Antoni Szczurek

The predictions for the atmospheric neutrino flux at high energies strongly depend on the contribution of prompt neutrinos, which are determined by the production of charmed meson…

hep-ph2020

Production of neutrinos and antineutrinos -- elaborate calculation for a fixed target experiment SHiP

Rafal Maciula

We discuss cross sections for and production from the direct and chain d…

hep-ph2020★ 71 cited

On the mechanism of tetraquark production

Rafał Maciuła, Wolfgang Schäfer, Antoni Szczurek

We discuss the production mechanism of a new state, a putative fully charm tetraquark, observed recently by the LHCb at M = 6.9 GeV in the channel. Both single parton scat…

hep-ph2020★ 23 cited

Intrinsic charm in the nucleon and charm production at large rapidities in collinear, hybrid and -factorization approaches

Rafal Maciula, Antoni Szczurek

We discuss the role of intrinsic charm (IC) in the nucleon for forward production of -quark (or -antiquark) in proton-proton collisions for low and high energies. The ca…

hep-ph2020★ 8 cited

QCD predictions for open charm meson production at the LHCb in fixed-target experiment

Rafal Maciula

We investigate open charm meson production in fixed-target LHCb experiment at GeV in collisions. Theoretical calculations of charm cross section…

hep-ph2020★ 7 cited

Production of meson at the LHC: Color evaporation versus color-singlet gluon-gluon fusion

Piotr Lebiedowicz, Rafał Maciuła, Antoni Szczurek

The production of the meson at high energies is not well understood. We investigate two different potential mechanisms for inclusive scalar meson production in the $k_…

hep-ph2019★ 8 cited

Production asymmetry of neutrinos and antineutrinos from a fixed target experiment SHiP

Rafal Maciula, Antoni Szczurek, Jakub Zaremba +1

We discuss how to calculate cross sections as well as rapidity, transverse momentum and energy distributions of and produced from the direct $D_s^{\pm} \to…

hep-ph2019

Enhanced production of in proton-proton collisions at the LHC

Rafal Maciula, Antoni Szczurek

We calculate cross section for production of mesons and baryons in proton-proton collisions at the LHC. The cross section for production of pairs is calculated…

hep-ph2019★ 1 cited

Production of quarkonia in color evaporation model based on -factorization

Rafal Maciula, Antoni Szczurek

We use a new approach to color evaporation model (CEM) for quarkonium production. The production of pairs is performed within -factorization approach using different…

hep-ph2019★ 11 cited

Independent quark/antiquark fragmentation to massive particles in proton-proton collisions

Rafal Maciula, Antoni Szczurek

We critically discuss fragmentation of quark or antiquark to massive particles (mesons or baryons) in proton-proton collisions. Both heavy and light quark/antiquark fragmentations…

hep-ph2019★ 34 cited

Consistent treatment of charm production in higher-orders at tree-level within -factorization approach

Rafal Maciula, Antoni Szczurek

We discuss production of -pairs within -factorization approach (off-shell initial partons) with unintegrated parton distribution functions (uPDFs). We present a cons…

hep-ph2018

Double parton scattering effects in heavy meson production

Rafal Maciula

We present results of our theoretical investigation of double-parton scattering (DPS) effects in production of heavy flavour mesons (charm and bottom). We discuss production of cha…

hep-ph2018★ 24 cited

-meson production within improved color evaporation model with the -factorization approach for production

Rafal Maciula, Antoni Szczurek, Anna Cisek

We use a new approach to color evaporation model (CEM) for quarkonium production. The production of pairs is performed within -factorization approach using different…