W- and Z-boson production with a massive bottom-quark pair at the Large Hadron Collider

Details W- and Z-boson production with a massive bottom-quark pair at the Large Hadron Collider W- and Z-boson production with a massive bottom-quark pair at the Large Hadron Collider

2009-06-10

arxiv.org/abs/0906.1923v3

Phys.Rev.D80:034015,2009

Physics

High Energy Physics

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

24 pages, 24 postscript figures, added one reference, a few typos corrected, version published in PRD

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.80.034015

We present total and differential cross sections for W b anti-b and Z b anti-b production at the CERN Large Hadron Collider with a center-of-mass energy of 14 TeV, including Next-to-Leading Order (NLO) QCD corrections and full bottom-quark mass effects. We also provide numerical results obtained with a center-of-mass energy of 10 TeV. We study the scale uncertainty of the total cross sections due to the residual renormalization- and factorization-scale dependence of the truncated perturbative series. While in the case of Z b anti-b production the scale uncertainty of the total cross section is reduced by NLO QCD corrections, the W b anti-b production process at NLO in QCD still suffers from large scale uncertainties, in particular in the inclusive case. We also perform a detailed comparison with a calculation that considers massless bottom quarks, as implemented in the Monte Carlo program MCFM. The effects of a non-zero bottom-quark mass (m_b) cannot be neglected in phase-space regions where the relevant kinematic observable, such as the transverse momentum of the bottom quarks or the invariant mass of the bottom-quark pair, are of the order of m_b. The effects on the total production cross sections are usually smaller than the residual scale uncertainty at NLO in QCD.

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