Charm production in two-photon collisions: Calculation of the leading nonperturbative contribution in QCD
Authors:
A. Yu. Khodjamirian
A. G. Oganessian
Affiliation:
Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Bern, CH-3012, Bern, Switzerland
Theory Division, Yerevan Physics Institute, 375036, Yerevan, Armenia
Abstract:
The leading nonperturbative contribution to the cross section of charm production in two-photon collisions is calculated in QCD. Operator expansion is used and the c-quark interaction with vacuum gluon condensate is taken into account. As a result, the moments of the charm contribution to the photon structure function are obtained. The moments with sufficiently high numbers turn out to be sensitive to the gluon condensate.