Strong radiative corrections to W b bbar production in p pbar collisions

Abstract

We calculate the strong radiative corrections to the process p pbar -> W(->e nu) g^*(->b bbar). At the Tevatron this process is the largest background to the associated Higgs boson production p pbar -> W(-> e nu) H(-> b bbar). The calculation is based on the subtraction procedure, and the corrections are found to be significant.

Comments: 8 pages, latex, 4 postscript figures included