https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-009-1170-4
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
A phenomenological study of bottom-quark fragmentation in top-quark decay
1
Museo Storico della Fisica e Centro Studi e Ricerche E. Fermi, Piazza del Viminale 1, 00184, Rome, Italy
2
Scuola Normale Superiore, Piazza dei Cavalieri 7, 56126, Pisa, Italy
3
Sezione di Pisa, INFN, Largo Fibonacci 3, 56127, Pisa, Italy
4
Departamento d’Estructura i Constituents de la Materia (ECM) and Institut de Ciencies del Cosmos (ICC), Universitat de Barcelona, Av. Diagonal 647, 08028, Barcelona, Spain
* e-mail: gennaro.corcella@sns.it
Received:
31
July
2009
Published online:
22
October
2009
Top-quark physics is one of the main fields of investigation at the Tevatron accelerator and, ultimately, at the LHC. We perform a phenomenological analysis of 
events at hadron colliders, with a focus on observables relying on bottom-quark fragmentation in top-quark decay. In particular, we investigate the B-lepton invariant-mass distribution in the dilepton channel and give an estimate of the contribution of bottom fragmentation to the Monte Carlo uncertainty on the top-quark mass reconstruction.
PACS: 13.87.Fh – / 14.65.Fy – / 14.65.Ha –
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