High-energy resummation in heavy-quark pair hadroproduction

The inclusive hadroproduction of two heavy quarks, featuring a large separation in rapidity, is proposed as a novel probe channel of the Balitsky–Fadin–Kuraev– Lipatov (BFKL) approach. In a theoretical setup which includes full resummation of leading logarithms in the centerof- mass energy and partial resummation of the next-toleading ones, predictions for the cross section and azimuthal coefficients are presented for kinematic configurations typical of current and possible future experimental analyses at the LHC.