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Heavy-quark pair production in polarized photon-photon collisions at next-to-leading order: Fully integrated total cross sections

Journal Article · · Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
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  1. II. Institut fuer Theoretische Physik, Universitaet Hamburg, Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761 Hamburg (Germany)
We consider the production of heavy-quark pairs in the collisions of polarized and unpolarized on-shell photons and present, in analytic form, the fully integrated total cross sections for total photon spins J{sub z}=0, {+-}2 at next-to-leading-order in QCD. Phenomenological applications include bb production, which represents an irreducible background to standard-model intermediate-mass Higgs-boson production, as well as tt production.
OSTI ID:
21300865
Journal Information:
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Journal Name: Physical Review. D, Particles Fields Journal Issue: 11 Vol. 79; ISSN PRVDAQ; ISSN 0556-2821
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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