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

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 نشر من قبل Hubert Spiesberger
 تاريخ النشر 2015
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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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