Background: A resonance has been observed by the ANDY Collaboration at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Cu+Au collisions at center-of-mass energy $sqrt{s} = 200$ GeV and at forward rapidity with an average mass
of 18.15 GeV. The Collaboration suggests that it is a $b overline b b overline b$ tetraquark state decaying to two $Upsilon$(1S) states, each measured through the $Upsilon rightarrow ggg$ channel. Purpose: Their suggestion is investigated assuming that the two $Upsilon$ states are produced through the materialization of a $|uud boverline b b overline b rangle$ Fock state in the projectile. Methods: The $Upsilon$ pair mass and rapidity distributions arising from such a state are calculated. The production of an $X_b(b overline b b overline b)$ tetraquark state from the same Fock configuration is also investigated. The dependence on bottom quark mass and their transverse momentum range is also studied. Results: It is found that double $Upsilon$ production from these $|uud b overline b b overline b rangle$ states peak in the rapidity range of the ANDY detector. The $Upsilon$ pair and $X_b$ masses are, however, higher than the mass reported by the ANDY Collaboration. Conclusions: The results obtained from these calculations are incompatible with the ANDY result. They are, however, compatible with previous predictions of $b overline b b overline b$ tetraquark masses.
We study the production of a Higgs boson in association with bottom quarks in hadronic collisions, and present phenomenological predictions relevant to the 13 TeV LHC. Our results are accurate to the next-to-leading order in QCD, and matched to parto
n showers through the MC@NLO method; thus, they are fully differential and based on unweighted events, which we shower by using both Herwig++ and Pythia8. We perform the computation in both the four-flavour and the five-flavour schemes, whose results we compare extensively at the level of exclusive observables. In the case of the Higgs transverse momentum, we also consider the analytically-resummed cross section up to the NNLO+NNLL accuracy. In addition, we analyse at ${cal O}(alpha_S^3)$ the effects of the interference between the $bbar{b}H$ and gluon-fusion production modes.
We present predictions for a variety of single-inclusive observables that stem from the production of charm and bottom quark pairs at the 7 TeV LHC. They are obtained within the FONLL semi-analytical framework, and with two Monte Carlo + NLO approach
es, MC@NLO and POWHEG. Results are given for final states and acceptance cuts that are as close as possible to those used by experimental collaborations and, where feasible, are compared to LHC data.
Existences of vector-like quarks (VLQs) are predicted in many new physics scenarios beyond the Standard Model (SM). We study the possibility of detecting the vector-like bottom quark (VLQ-$B$) being the $SU(2)$ singlet with electric charge $-1/3$ at
the Large Hadron Electron Collider (LHeC) in a model-independent framework. The decay properties and single production of VLQ-$B$ at the LHeC are explored. Three types of signatures are investigated. By carrying out a fast simulation for the signals and the corresponding backgrounds, the signal significances are obtained. Our numerical results show that detecting of VLQ-$B$ via the semileptonic channel is better than via the fully hadronic or leptonic channel.
We review the present status of the QCD corrected cross sections and kinematic distributions for the production of a Higgs boson in association with bottom quarks at the Fermilab Tevatron and CERN Large Hadron Collider. Results are presented for the
Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model where, for large tan beta, these production modes can be greatly enhanced compared to the Standard Model case. The next-to-leading order QCD results are much less sensitive to the renormalization and factorization scales than the lowest order results, but have a significant dependence on the choice of the renormalization scheme for the bottom quark Yukawa coupling. We also investigate the uncertainties coming from the Parton Distribution Functions and find that these uncertainties can be comparable to the uncertainties from the remaining scale dependence of the next-to-leading order results. We present results separately for the different final states depending on the number of bottom quarks identified.