Is There a Significant Excess in Bottom Hadroproduction at the Tevatron?

28 August 2002

journal article
Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters

Vol. 89 (12) , 122003
https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.89.122003

Abstract

We discuss the excess in the hadroproduction of B mesons at the Tevatron. We show that an accurate use of up-to-date information on the B fragmentation function reduces the observed excess to an acceptable level. Possible implications for experimental results reporting bottom quark cross sections, also showing an excess with respect to next-to-leading order theoretical predictions, are discussed.

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