Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2008-09-23
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
PhD dissertation, adviser Laura Reina, slightly revised
Scientific paper
We present the calculation of Next-to-Leading-Order Quantum Chromo Dynamics corrections for the production of a W or Z weak boson associated with a bottom anti-bottom quark pair at hadron colliders (p anti-p, pp to W/Z b anti-b), including the effects of a non-zero bottom-quark mass. We find a considerable reduction of the renormalization and factorization scale dependence of our results with respect to Leading-Order calculations. In particular, we study the impact of the corrections on the total cross section and invariant mass distributions of the bottom anti-bottom quark pair at the Fermilab Tevatron collider. We perform a detailed comparison with a calculation that considers massless bottom quarks and find significant deviations in regions of phase space with small invariant mass of the bottom anti-bottom quark pair. Our results will be relevant to ongoing and future searches at hadron colliders, as the W/Z b anti-b production mode is the main background to important signals, such as light Standard Model Higgs boson production or single top-quark production.
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