$B_c$ Meson at LHC

Abstract

In the framework of perturbative QCD and potential models of heavy quarkonium, total cross-sections and differential characteristics of hadronic production for different spin states of the $B_c$-meson family are calculated at energies of LHC. Theoretical predictions for masses and branching ratios of $B_c$ decays are given, which allows one to make estimates for an expected number of reconstructed events with $B_c$.

Comments: 27 pages, Latex file, epsf-style, 6 ps-figures