The p_T Spectrum in Heavy-Flavour Hadroproduction

Abstract

We consider the transverse-momentum distribution of heavy flavours in hadronic collisions. We present a formalism in which large transverse-momentum logarithms are resummed at the next-to-leading level, and mass effects are included exactly up to order \alpha_strong^3, so as to retain predictivity at both small and large transverse momenta. As an example, we apply our formalism to b production at the Tevatron.

Comments: 34 pages, Latex, epsfig, 11 figures. Submitted to JHEP