Bottom Production
P. Nason, G. Ridolfi, O. Schneider G. F. Tartarelli, P. Vikas, J. Baines, S. P. Baranov, P. Bartalini, A. Bay, E. Bouhova, M. Cacciari, A. Caner, Y. Coadou, G. Corti, J. Damet, R. Dell'Orso, J. R. T. De Mello Neto, J. L. Domenech, V. Drollinger, P. Eerola, N. Ellis, B. Epp, S. Frixione, S. Gadomski, I. Gavrilenko, S. Gennai, S. George, V. M. Ghete, L. Guy, Y. Hasegawa, P. Iengo, A. Jacholkowska, R. Jones, A. Kharchilava, E. Kneringer, P. Koppenburg, H. Korsmo, M. Kraemer, N. Labanca, M. Lehto, F. Maltoni, M. L. Mangano, S. Mele, A. M. Nairz, T. Nakada, N. Nikitin, A. Nisati, E. Norrbin, F. Palla, F. Rizatdinova, S. Robins, D. Rousseau, M. A. Sanchis-Lozano, M. Shapiro, P. Sherwood, L. Smirnova, M. Smizanska, A. Starodumov, N. Stepanov, R. Vogt
TL;DR
This paper surveys bottom quark production at the LHC, highlighting its roles in QCD tests, B-physics background, and as a background for other processes. It reviews the theoretical status, noting that perturbative QCD describes distribution shapes and correlations reasonably well, but total cross sections are underpredicted at hadron colliders, with large uncertainties from higher-order terms and input parameters. A FMNR-based benchmark study of $b$ total cross sections is presented, illustrating the expected rates and the dominant scale and parameter uncertainties that affect predictions. The report also discusses fragmentation and hadronization modeling in HERWIG and PYTHIA, prospects for quarkonium production within NRQCD, and the complementary capabilities of ATLAS/CMS and LHCb for detecting heavy flavour and for correlation measurements.
Abstract
We review the prospects for bottom production physics at the LHC.