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Investigation of beauty production and parton shower effects at the LHC
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We present hadron-level predictions from the Monte Carlo generator CASCADE and parton-level calculations of open b quark, b-flavored hadron, and inclusive b-jet production in the framework of the k(T)-factorization QCD approach for the LHC energies. The unintegrated gluon densities in a proton are determined using the Catani-Ciafaloni-Fiorani-Marchesini (CCFM) evolution equation and the Kimber-Martin-Ryskin (KMR) prescription. Our predictions are compared with the first data taken by the CMS and LHCb collaborations at root s = 7 TeV. We study the theoretical uncertainties of our calculations and investigate the effects coming from parton showers in initial and final states. The special role of initial gluon transverse momenta in description of the data is pointed out.
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English
Source (journal)
Physical review : D : particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology / American Physical Society. - Ridge, N.Y., 2004 - 2015
Physical review : D : particles and fields. - Lancaster, Pa, 1970 - 2003
Publication
Ridge, N.Y. : American Physical Society , 2012
ISSN
1550-7998 [print]
1550-2368 [online]
DOI
10.1103/PHYSREVD.85.034035
Volume/pages
85 :3 (2012) , p. 034035,1-034035,12
Article Reference
034035
ISI
000300570300006
Medium
E-only publicatie
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