Status of the observed and predicted b anti-b production at the Tevatron
The authors review the experimental status of the b-quark production at the Fermilab Tevatron. They compare all available measurements to perturbative QCD predictions (NLO and FONLL) and also to the parton-level cross section evaluated with parton-shower Monte Carlo generators. They examine both the single b cross section and the so called b{bar b} correlations. The review shows that the experimental situation is quite complicated because the measurements appear to be inconsistent among themselves. In this situation, there is no solid basis to either claim that perturbative QCD is challenged by these measurements or, in contrast, that long-standing discrepancies between data and theory have been resolved by incrementally improving the measurements and the theoretical prediction.
- Research Organization:
- Fermi National Accelerator Lab. (FNAL), Batavia, IL (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-76CH03000
- OSTI ID:
- 879155
- Report Number(s):
- FERMILAB-PUB-05-376-E-T; PRVDAQ; arXiv eprint number hep-ph/0509348; TRN: US0602843
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review, D (Particles Fields), Vol. 73; ISSN 0556-2821
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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