C. Royon

Saturation effects in diffractive deep inelastic scattering

We study the production of $c$ and $b$ quarks in photon-induced processes as a probe of gluon saturation, with a focus on the high-energy region accessible in ultra-peripheral collisions (UPCs) at the LHC. We compare predictions for inclusive and diffractive heavy quark production with and without saturation effects by...