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Title: NLO QCD corrections to W boson production with a massive b-quark jet pair at the Fermilab Tevatron pp collider

Journal Article · · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
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  1. Physics Department, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306-4350 (United States)

We calculate the next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD corrections to Wbb production including full bottom-quark mass effects. We study the impact of NLO QCD corrections on the total cross section and invariant mass distribution of the bottom-quark jet pair at the Fermilab Tevatron pp collider. We perform a detailed comparison with a calculation that considers massless bottom quarks. We find that neglecting bottom-quark mass effects overestimates the NLO total cross section for Wbb production at the Tevatron by about 8% independent of the choice of renormalization and factorization scale.

OSTI ID:
20869239
Journal Information:
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 74, Issue 3; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.74.034007; (c) 2006 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0556-2821
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English