Prospects for heavy flavour photoproduction at HERA

Abstract

I discuss few selected topics in heavy flavour photoproduction at HERA which require large integrated luminosity in order to be experimentally investigated. I present phenomenological predictions for bottom production. As a possible application of measurements involving double-tagged charm events, I outline a method for the direct measurement of the gluon density in the proton. The possibility of using charm data in polarized electron-proton collisions to constrain the polarized gluon density in the proton is also discussed.

8 pages Latex, uses epsfig.sty, 3 eps figures included. To appear in the proceedings of the workshop "Future physics at HERA", eds. G. Ingelman, A. De Roeck and R. Klanner