https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-7326-y
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
B-meson production in the general-mass variable-flavour-number scheme and LHC data
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II. Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Hamburg, Luruper Chaussee 149, 22761, Hamburg, Germany
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University of California at San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA, 92093, USA
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Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie, Université Joseph Fourier Grenoble 1, CNRS/IN2P3, Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, 53 Avenue des Martyrs, 38026, Grenoble, France
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PRISMA+ Cluster of Excellence, Institut für Physik, Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität, Staudinger Weg 7, 55099, Mainz, Germany
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Centre for Theoretical and Mathematical Physics and Department of Physics, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, 7700, South Africa
* e-mail: spiesber@uni-mainz.de
Received:
8
August
2019
Accepted:
19
September
2019
Published online:
3
October
2019
We study inclusive B-meson production in pp collisions at the LHC and compare experimental data with predictions of the general-mass variable-flavour-number scheme at next-to-leading order of perturbative QCD. We find almost perfect agreement provided that the factorization scale parameters and the parton distribution functions are chosen appropriately.
© The Author(s), 2019
