Production and Hadronization of Heavy Quarks

por Torbjorn Sjostrand (Lund University)

jueves 14 feb. 2002 12:30 → 13:30 Europe/Madrid

Sala Seminarios IFIC (Edf. Institutos de Investigación)

The physics of open heavy flavour (c and b) production is considered from three points of view: 1) The classification into different production mechanisms, such as pair creation, flavour excitation and gluon splitting. 2) The hadronization, where nontrivial beam drag effects introduce asymmetries between particle and antiparticle distributions. 3) QCD radiation, whereby heavy flavours lose momentum and come to be surrounded by additional jet activity. The experience gained here also has applications to other topics, such as top and SUSY production. The emphasis is on applications to hadronic collisions, but also e+e- is used to illustrate our current knowledge.