Heavy-flavour production and correlations in pp collisions: precision tests of pQCD and hadronisation with ALICE
Heavy quarks (charm and beauty) are predominantly produced in hard partonic scatterings, making their cross sections in proton--proton (pp) collisions calculable in perturbative quantum chromodynamics (pQCD) and thus providing stringent tests of pQCD. Furthermore, the associated production of two charm hadrons in a sin...