Production of a Z boson and two jets with one heavy-quark tag

J. Campbell, R. K. Ellis, F. Maltoni, S. Willenbrock

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Abstract

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.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number054007
JournalPhysical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
Volume73
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - 2006
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics
  • Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

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