arXiv:hep-ph/0312024·v2·High Energy Physics — Phenomenology
Associated Production of a Z Boson and a Single Heavy-Quark Jet
J. Campbell🇺🇸 · R. K. Ellis🇺🇸 · F. Maltoni🇮🇹 · S. Willenbrock🇺🇸
Abstract
The leading-order process for the production of a Z boson and a heavy-quark jet at hadron colliders is gQ -> ZQ (Q=c,b). We calculate this cross section at next-to-leading order at the Tevatron and the LHC, and compare it with other sources of ZQ events. This process is a background to new physics, and can be used to measure the heavy-quark distribution function.
Comments: 15 pages, 9 figures. Version to appear in Phys. Rev. D