B-meson production in the general-mass variable-flavour-number scheme and LHC data

Abstract

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.

Comments: 15 pages, 12 figures