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Adopting the complete $\alpha_s^4$ approach of the perturbative QCD (pQCD) and updated parton distribution functions, we have estimated the hadronic production of $P$-wave excited $B_c$-states ($B_{cJ,L=1}^*$). In the estimate, special care…
Measurements of b-hadron masses are performed with the exclusive decay modes B+ -> J/psi K+, B0 -> J/psi K*0, B0 -> J/psi K0S, B0_s -> J/psi phi and Lambda_b -> J/psi Lambda using an integrated luminosity of 35 pb-1 collected in pp…
The b-hadron production cross section is measured with the ATLAS detector in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV, using 3.3 pb^-1 of integrated luminosity, collected during the 2010 LHC run. The b-hadrons are selected by partially…
The production of J /{\psi} and {\Upsilon} mesons is studied in pp collisions at \surds = 7 TeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC. The J /{\psi} measurement is based on a dimuon sample corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 314…
The production of $D$-mesons in high-energy $pp$ collisions at the LHC kinematic regime is analyzed with the dipole approach in the momentum representation. We present predictions for the $D$-meson differential cross section in terms of the…
It is shown that the study of correlations in the associative production of B_c and D mesons at LHC allows to obtain the essential information about the B_c production mechanism.
We consider the simultaneous production of two heavy-flavoured hadrons - particularly D mesons - at the LHC. We base our calculations on collinearly factorized QCD at next-to-leading order, using the contemporary parton distribution…
Production of the doubly heavy-flavored hadrons ($B_c$ meson, doubly heavy baryons $\Xi_{cc}$, $\Xi_{bc}$, $\Xi_{bb}$, their excited states and antiparticles of them as well) at $e^+e^-$ colliders is investigated under two different…
Using photon-photon collisions as a particularly transparent study case we investigate the production mechanisms for $B_c$ mesons. In nonrelativistic approximation and to $O(\alpha^2\alpha_s^2)$ it is shown that recombination of $\bar{b}$-…
In the wake of measurements on $B_c^+ \to J/\psi K^+$, $B_c^+ \to J/\psi \pi^+\pi^-\pi^+$, and $B_c^+ \to J/\psi K^+ K^-\pi^+$ at Large Hadron Collider experiments, we propose to study the decays $B_c^+ \to J/\psi M^+$ comprehensively, with…
The paper is devoted to investigation of $K$ mesons production in exclusive $B_{c}$ decays $B_{c} \to \psi^{(')}K^{+}K^{-}\pi^{+}$ and $B_{c} \to \psi^{(')}K^{+}\pi^{+}\pi^{-}$. In the framework of resonance approximation we obtain…
Theoretical predictions of cross sections and properties of the $J/\psi$-meson production in association with an open charm hadron and formation of two open charm hadrons from two $c\bar{c}$ pairs in the LHC conditions are presented.…
We report measurements of the first and second moments of the hadronic invariant mass squared distribution, <M^2_X> and <(M^2_X-<M^2_X>)^2>, in B -> X_c l nu decays for minimum lepton momenta ranging from 0.7 to 1.5 GeV/c in the B meson…
We describe a measurement of the ratio of the cross sections times branching fractions of the $B_c^+$ meson in the decay mode $B_c^+ \rightarrow J/\psi \mu\nu$ to the $B^+$ meson in the decay mode $B^+ \rightarrow J/\psi K^+$ in…
We describe some characteristic properties of $B_c$ mesons and discuss the production and the prospects of detection in $e^+ e^-$, $\gamma \gamma$, and $\bar pp/pp$ collisions. The production mechanisms considered here also play an…
Measurements of the production cross section of beauty hadrons in proton-proton (pp) collisions provide excellent tests of perturbative quantum chromodynamics (pQCD) calculations. Theoretical approaches based on the factorisation theorem…
A study of proton-proton collisions in which two b hadrons are produced in association with a Z boson is reported. The collisions were recorded at a centre-of-mass energy of 7 TeV with the CMS detector at the LHC, for an integrated…
The cross sections for the production of $B_s$ and $B_s^*$ mesons through the fragmentation process in $\bar{p}p$ collisions were calculated. The input parameters were determined from the measured $B_s$ and $B_s^*$ production rates in…
We discuss the feasibility of the observation of the signal from $B_c$ mesons in the ATLAS experiment of the LHC collider at a luminosity of ${\approx}\ 10^{33}$cm$^{-2}$s$^{-1}$. In particular we address the decay mode…
We extend our previous studies of double-parton scattering (DPS) to simultaneous production of $c \bar c$ and $b \bar b$ and production of two pairs of $b \bar b$. The calculation is performed within factorized ansatz. Each parton…