Related papers: Heavy Quark Production
We review the prospects for studies of the top quark at the LHC.
I discuss some aspects of the comparison between QCD predictions and experimental data in charm and bottom production.
We calculate the finite part of the heavy quark impact factor at next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy in a form suitable for phenomenological studies such as the calculation of the cross-section for single bottom quark production at the…
In this review article three promising aspects of top quark production are discussed: the charge asymmetry in top quark pair production, the search for resonant top quark pair production, and electroweak single top quark production. First,…
The latest results from ATLAS and CMS on single top quark production and rare production channels of top quarks at the LHC are presented.
The single top quark production has an electroweak nature and provides an additional to the top pair production source of the top quarks. The processes involving single top have unique properties, they are very interesting from both…
We compare the numerical predictions for heavy quark production in high energy hadron collisions in the conventional QCD parton model and the k_T-factorization approach (semihard theory). The total production cross sections, one-particle…
Some topics which can be easily explained to undergraduate students are presented, with elementary derivations. For a more systematic treatment of heavy-quark physics, see the textbook by Manohar and Wise.
Measurements of heavy quark production, particularly from HERA, their theoretical understanding and their relevance for the LHC are reviewed. The status of beauty and charm production is discussed in the context of the different components…
The physics perspectives of the production and decay of single top quarks and top quark pairs at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are reviewed from a phenomenological point of view.
These lectures contain an elementary introduction to heavy quark symmetry and the heavy quark expansion. Applications such as the expansion of heavy meson decay constants and the treatment of inclusive and exclusive semileptonic $B$ decays…
Current theoretical framework for the calculation of heavy quark production in $\gamma\gamma$ collisions is reviewed. The importance of including direct photon contributions up to the order $\alpha^2\alpha_s^2$ and of the proper choice of…
The cross sections of heavy quark production in $pp$ collision and for their photo- and electroproduction are calculated in the framework of QCD. The virtual nature of the interacting gluons as well as their transverse motion and different…
I review recent progress made on heavy quark physics on the lattice.
We briefly review several models of heavy quarkonium production in hadronic collisions, and discuss the status of QCD factorization for these production models.
In this talk we review recent perturbative and non-perturbative developments in Heavy Quark Effective Theory (HQET).
We review some aspects of weak decays of hadrons containing one heavy quark. The main emphasis is on $B$ physics, in particular in the framework of the Heavy Quark Effective Theory.
Heavy quark production has been very well studied over the last years both theoretically and experimentally. Theory has been used to study heavy quark production in $e p$ collisions at HERA, in $pp$ collisions at Tevatron and at RHIC, in…
A review of the present status of the spectroscopy of heavy quarkonia (b-bbar, c-cbar) is presented.
In this paper we review existing data and analyze experimental opportunities for modern experiments to investigate the signals of intrinsic heavy quarks.