On the energy dependence of hadronic $B_c$ production

Abstract

An estimate is presented of the production cross section of $B_c$ mesons between threshold and LHC energies using lowest-order perturbation theory and non-relativistic bound state approximation. It is shown that the ratio of the production cross sections for $B_c$ mesons and for $b$ quarks varies strongly with energy.

Comments: 5 pages, 1 figure, Latex; Contribution to the 5th International Workshop on $B$-Physics at Hadron Machines, 1997, Los Angeles, California, USA