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Processes of heavy quark pair (lepton pair) and two gluon (two photon) production in the high energy quark (electron) proton peripheral collisions

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We considered the three jet production processes in the region of the incident lepton, photon, quark or gluon fragmentation. The fourth jet is created by the recoil proton. The kinematics of jet production is discussed in jets production in the fragmentation region. The non-trivial relation between the momenta of the recoil proton and the polar angle of its emission was derived. Based on this formalism the differential cross sections of QCD processes $gp \to (ggg) p; \,\,\,qp \to (q \bar{Q} Q) p; \,\,\, gp \to (g Q \bar{Q})p$ were obtained, including the distribution on transverse momentum component of jets fragments. It was shown that the role of the contribution of "non-Abelian" nature may become dominant in a particular kinematics of the final particles. The kinematics, in which the initial particle changes the direction of movement to the opposite one, was considered in the case of heavy quark-antiquark pair production. Different distributions, including spectral, azimuthal and polar angle distribution on the fragments of jets can be arranged using our results. We present besides the behavior of the ratio of non-Abelian contribution to the cross section to the total contribution. We show that it dominates for large values of the transverse momenta of jets component (gluons or quarks). Some historical introduction to the cross-sections of peripheral processes, including 2$γ$ creation mechanism production, including the result Brodsky-Kinoshita-Terazawa, is given.

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Azad I. Ahmadov, Eduard A. Kuraev. 2014-07-05. Processes of heavy quark pair (lepton pair) and two gluon (two photon) production in the high energy quark (electron) proton peripheral collisions. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2014.06.006

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