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Inclusive B-meson production at small p_T in the general-mass variable-flavor-number scheme

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-08-08 v1

Abstract

We calculate the cross section for the inclusive production of B mesons in pp and ppbar collisions at next-to-leading order in the general-mass variable-flavor-number scheme and show that a suitable choice of factorization scales leads to a smooth transition to the fixed-flavor-number scheme. Our numerical results are in good agreement with data from the Tevatron and LHC experiments at small and at large transverse momenta.

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@article{arxiv.1502.01001,
  title  = {Inclusive B-meson production at small p_T in the general-mass variable-flavor-number scheme},
  author = {B. A. Kniehl and G. Kramer and I. Schienbein and H. Spiesberger},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1502.01001},
  year   = {2016}
}

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19 pages