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Understanding Bottom Production

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v1

Abstract

We describe calculations of b b-bar production to next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) and next-to-next-to-leading logarithm (NNLL) near threshold in pp interactions. Our calculations are in good agreement with the b b-bar total cross section measured by HERA-B.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0208119,
  title  = {Understanding Bottom Production},
  author = {N. Kidonakis and E. Laenen and S. Moch and R. Vogt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0208119},
  year   = {2008}
}

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contribution to the proceedings of Quark Matter'02, 4 pages, 1 .eps figure, uses special included style file