====== TTP00-23 QCD factorization with heavy quarks ====== We further analyze the definition and the calculation of the heavy quark impact factor at next-to-leading (NL) $\log s$ level, and we provide its analytical expression in a previously proposed k-factorization scheme. Our results indicate that k-factorization holds at NL level with a properly chosen energy scale, and with the same gluonic Green's function previously found in the massless probe case. |**G. Rodrigo and M. Ciafaloni** | |** Nucl. Phys. Proc. Suppl. 99A 200-203 2001 ** | | {{preprints:2000:ttp00-23.pdf|PDF}} {{preprints:2000:ttp00-23.ps|PostScript}} [[http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0010216|arXiv]] | | |