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Z. V. Merebashvili

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arXiv2009

Heavy-quark pair production in polarized photon-photon collisions at next-to-leading order: Fully integrated total cross sections

We consider the production of heavy-quark pairs in the collisions of polarized and unpolarized on-shell photons and present, in analytic form, the fully integrated total cross sections for total photon spins $J_z=0, \pm 2$ at next-to-leading-order in QCD. Phenomenological applications include $b\bar b$ production, which represents an irreducible background to standard-model intermediate-mass Higgs-boson production, as well as $t\bar t$ production.

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arXiv1999

Polarized Heavy Quark Photoproduction in Next to Leading Order

Results of our next-to-leading order analytic calculation for longitudinally polarized photoproduction of heavy quarks are presented. Certain differential cross sections and the corresponding asymmetries are computed for energy ranges accessible to CERN and HERA. We argue that determination of the polarized gluon distribution is possible at both places: at HERA certain acceptance cuts are necessary.

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