The impact of the intrinsic charm quark content of the proton on differential $γ+c$ cross section

Abstract

We present a comparative analysis of the impact of the non-perturbative intrinsic charm quark content of the proton on differential cross section of $γ+c $-jet in $ pp $ and $ p\bar{p} $ collisions, for the kinematic regions that are sensitive to this contribution. We discuss the $ Q^2 $ evolution of intrinsic quark distributions and present a code which provide these distributions as a function of $ x $ and $ Q^2 $ for any arbitrary Fock state probability. For the $ p\bar{p} $ collisions at the Tevatron, the results are compared with the recent experimental data of D0 at $\sqrt{s} =1.96$ TeV and also predictions for $ pp $ collisions at $\sqrt{s} =8$ TeV and $\sqrt{s} =13$ TeV for the LHC.

16 pages, 8 figures, it is to be published in Journal of Physics G