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In the framework of perturbative QCD, the basic spin-averaged characteristics of heavy flavor hadro-, photo- and electroproduction are known exactly up to the next-to-leading order (NLO). During the last ten years, these NLO results have been widely used for a phenomenological description of available data (for a review see [1]). At the same time, the key question still remains open: How to test the applicability of QCD at fixed order to the heavy quark production? The problem is twofold. On the one hand, the NLO corrections are large; they increase the leading order (LO) predictions for both charm and bottom production cross sections approximately by a factor of two. For this reason, one could expect that higher-order corrections, as well as nonperturbative contributions, can be essential in these processes, especially for the c-quark case. On the other hand, it is very difficult to compare directly, without additional assumptions, pQCD predictions for spin-averaged cross sections with experimental data because of a high sensivity of the theoretical calculations to standard uncertainties in the input QCD parameters: m Q, the factorization and renormalization scales, μ F and μ R , Λ QCD and the parton distribution functions [2, 3].
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Ivanov, N.Y. (2003). Single Spin Asymmetry in Heavy Quark Photoproduction (and Decay) as a Test of PQCD. In: Steffens, E., Shanidze, R. (eds) Spin Structure of the Nucleon. NATO Science Series II: Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry, vol 111. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0165-6_12
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