Heavy-flavored emissions in hybrid collinear/high-energy factorization

Heavy-flavored emissions have been always considered as an excellent channel to test properties of Quantum chromodynamics (QCD) at present and future colliders. Among different regimes, in which heavy-flavor production can be investigated, we focus our attention on the semi-hard one, where s>> Q^2 >> \Lambda_QCD^2 ("s" is the squared center-of-mass energy, "Q^2" a (set of) hard scale(s) characteristic of the process and "\Lambda_QCD" the QCD mass scale). Here, we build predictions in a hybrid collinear/high-energy factorization, in which the standard collinear description is supplemented by the Balitsky-Fadin-Kuraev-Lipatov resummation of large energy logarithms. The definition and the study of observables sensitive to high-energy dynamics in the context of heavy-flavor physics has the double advantage of (i) allowing to get a stabilization of the BFKL series under higher order corrections and (ii) providing us with an auxiliary tool to investigate heavy-flavor production in wider kinematical ranges. Hence, we propose a scientific program on heavy-flavor physics at high energy with the goal of considering both open (heavy-jet) and bound states (baryons, heavy-light mesons and quarkonia).