2024/10/16 by Marco Guzzi, Pavel Nadolsky, Guzzi, Marco +7
Physics and Astronomy · #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2410.13044
We present the application of the ACOT and S-ACOT general mass variable flavor number schemes to proton-proton collisions with particular attention to the production of final states with at least one heavy quark. Subtraction and residual heavy-quark parton distribution functions are introduced to facilitate the implementation of this scheme at higher orders in perturbative QCD. The calculation of Z-boson hadronic production with at least one b jet beyond the lowest order in QCD is considered for illustration purposes.