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The production of heavy flavours inep collisions at the HERA energy is studied using a model based on boson-gluon fusion into a heavy quark-antiquark pair followed by gluon emission and string hadronization. Total cross-sections and dependence on basic kinematical variables are given as well as distributions of the most important variables at both the quark and hadron level, e.g. rapidity and transverse momentum. Charm, bottom and top production is compared and signatures for their separation are discussed in terms of decay muons and global event shape properties.
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Ingelman, G., Schuler, G.A. Characteristics of heavy flavour production inep collisions. Z. Phys. C - Particles and Fields 40, 299–311 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01555893
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