TY - JOUR
T1 - Production of a Z boson and two jets with one heavy-quark tag
AU - Campbell, J.
AU - Ellis, R. K.
AU - Maltoni, F.
AU - Willenbrock, S.
PY - 2006/3/23
Y1 - 2006/3/23
N2 - We present a next-to-leading-order calculation of the production of a Z boson with two jets, one or more of which contains a heavy quark (Q=c,b). We show that the cross section with only one heavy-quark jet is larger than that with two heavy-quark jets at both the Fermilab Tevatron and the CERN LHC. These processes are the dominant irreducible backgrounds to a Higgs boson produced in association with a Z boson, followed by h→bb̄. Our calculation makes use of a heavy-quark distribution function, which resums collinear logarithms and makes the next-to-leading-order calculation tractable.
AB - We present a next-to-leading-order calculation of the production of a Z boson with two jets, one or more of which contains a heavy quark (Q=c,b). We show that the cross section with only one heavy-quark jet is larger than that with two heavy-quark jets at both the Fermilab Tevatron and the CERN LHC. These processes are the dominant irreducible backgrounds to a Higgs boson produced in association with a Z boson, followed by h→bb̄. Our calculation makes use of a heavy-quark distribution function, which resums collinear logarithms and makes the next-to-leading-order calculation tractable.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevD.73.054007
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevD.73.054007
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33644962465
SN - 1550-7998
VL - 73
JO - Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
JF - Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
IS - 5
M1 - 054007
ER -