Diffractive photoproduction of heavy quarks in hadronic collisions
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In this letter we study the diffractive photoproduction of heavy quarks in hadronic (pp/pA/AA) interactions for Tevatron and LHC energies. The integrated cross section and rapidity distribution for the process h_1 h_2 --> h_1 h_2 QQBAR (h_i = p,A and Q = c,b) are estimated using the Color Glass Condensate (CGC) formalism. Our results indicate that this production channel has larger cross sections than the competing reactions of double diffractive production and coherent AA reactions initiated by two-photon collisions.
4 pages, 2 figures, 1 table. Version to be published in Physical Review D
4 pages, 2 figures, 1 table. Version to be published in Physical Review D