Exclusive central production of heavy quarks at the LHC

Understand

We study the exclusive production of heavy flavors at central rapidities in hadron-hadron collisions within the kT factorisation formalism.

• Since this involves regions of small Bjorken x in the unintegrated gluon densities, we include the next-to-leading order BFKL contributions working directly in transverse momentum representation.
• Our results are presented in a form suitable for Monte Carlo implementation.