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Inclusive charmed-meson production at the CERN LHC

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We present predictions for the inclusive production of D mesons at the CERN LHC in the general-mass variable-flavor-number scheme at next-to-leading order. Detailed numerical results are compared to data where available, or presented in a way to ease future comparisons with experimental results. We also point out that measurements at large rapidity have the potential to pin down models of intrinsic charm.

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Acknowledgements

We thank our experimental colleagues from the LHC collaborations A. Dainese, P. Thompson, L. Gladilin, and M. Schmelling for discussions about the experimental results.

This work was supported in part by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research BMBF through Grant No. 05 HT6GUA, by the German Research Foundation DFG through Grant No. KN 365/7–1, and by the Helmholtz Association HGF through Grant No. Ha 101.

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    Bernd A. Kniehl & Gustav Kramer

  2. Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, Université Joseph Fourier Grenoble 1, CNRS/IN2P3, 53 avenue des Martyrs, 38026, Grenoble, France

    Ingo Schienbein

  3. Institut für Physik, Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität, Staudinger Weg 7, 55099, Mainz, Germany

    Hubert Spiesberger

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Kniehl, B.A., Kramer, G., Schienbein, I. et al. Inclusive charmed-meson production at the CERN LHC. Eur. Phys. J. C 72, 2082 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-012-2082-2

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