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

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2 April 2002

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.hep-ph/0204025

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.

Keywords

BOTTOM HADROPRODUCTION
FRAGMENTATION FUNCTION
SIGNIFICANT EXCESS
REPORTING BOTTOM
DATE INFORMATION
OBSERVED EXCESS
HADROPRODUCTION
TEVATRON

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Version 1, 2002-04-02, ArXiv
Published version: Physical Review Letters, 89 (12), 122003.

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