Heavy quark impact factor in k T -factorization

2013/10/24 by Grigorios Chachamis, Michal Deak, German Rodrigo +1
Physics and Astronomy · #Bottom quark #Form factor (electronics) #Heavy quark effective theory #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Large Hadron Collider #Logarithm #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quark #Top quark #hep-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/jhep12(2013)066

15 pages, 3 figures

arxiv created 2013/10/24 · openalex publication_date 2013/12/01 · arxiv updated 2015/06/17 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05

Abstract

We present the calculation of 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 LHC within the kT-factorization scheme.

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