Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
1996-10-07
Z.Phys. C76 (1997) 689-700
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
31 pages (Latex), 13 figures (Postscript). This version of the manuscript is identical with the one being printed in Z. Phys.
Scientific paper
The cross section for the inclusive photoproduction of large-p_T D^*+- mesons is calculated at next-to-leading order, adopting different approaches to describe the fragmentation of charm quarks into D^*+- mesons. We treat the charm quark according to the massless factorization scheme, where it is assumed to be one of the active flavours inside the proton and the photon. We present inclusive single-particle distributions in transverse momentum and rapidity, including the contributions due to both direct and resolved photons. We compare and assess the various implementations of fragmentation. We argue that, in the high-p_T regime, a particularly realistic description can be obtained by convoluting the Altarelli-Parisi-evolved fragmentation functions of Peterson et al. with the hard-scattering cross sections of massless partons where the factorization of the collinear singularities associated with final-state charm quarks is converted to the massive-charm scheme. The predictions thus obtained agree well with recent experimental data by the H1 and ZEUS Collaborations at DESY HERA.
Kniehl Bernd A.
Kramer Georgiana
Spira Michael
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