1212.6381 (G. I. Lykasov et al.)

Heavy flavour production in pp collisions and intrinsic quark components
in proton    [PDF]

G. I. Lykasov, A. A. Grinyuk, I. V. Bednyakov

The LHC data on the forward heavy flavour hadron production can be a new unique source for estimation of intrinsic heavy quark contributions to the proton. We discuss in detail the D-meson production in pp collisions at the LHC including the intrinsic charm in the proton. We present also some predictions for the K-meson production in the pp collision at the initial energies 158 GeV and 7 TeV made within the perturbative QCD including the intrinsic strangeness in the proton that can be verified in the NA61 experiment and at LHC.

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