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$B{\bar B}$ angular correlations at the LHC in parton Reggeization approach merged with higher-order matrix elements

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2017-11-29 v1

Abstract

We calculate the angular distribution spectra between beauty (BB) and anti-beauty (Bˉ\bar B) mesons in proton-proton collisions in the leading order approximation of the parton Reggeization approach consistently merged with the next-to-leading order corrections from the emission of additional hard gluon. To describe b-quark hadronization we use the universal scale-depended parton-to-meson fragmentation functions extracted from the world e+ee^+e^- annihilation data. We have obtained good agreement between our predictions and data from the CMS Collaboration at the energy S=7\sqrt{S}=7 TeV for BBˉB \bar B angular correlations within uncertainties and without free parameters. Predictions for analogous correlation observables at S=13\sqrt{S}=13 TeV are provided.

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@article{arxiv.1707.04068,
  title  = {$B{\bar B}$ angular correlations at the LHC in parton Reggeization approach merged with higher-order matrix elements},
  author = {Anton Karpishkov and Maxim Nefedov and Vladimir Saleev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1707.04068},
  year   = {2017}
}

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28 pages, 12 figures

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