Production of a Z boson and two jets with one heavy-quark tag
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We present a next-to-leading-order calculation of the production of a Z boson with two jets, one or more of which contains a heavy quark (Q = c, b). We show that the cross section with only one heavy-quark jet is larger than that with two heavy-quark jets at both the Fermilab Tevatron and the CERN LHC. These processes are the dominant irreducible backgrounds to a Higgs boson produced in association with a Z boson, followed by h {yields} b{bar b}. Our calculation makes use of a heavy-quark distr…
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Date:
October 1, 2005
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Campbell, J.; /CERN; Ellis, R.K.; /Fermilab, /CERN; Maltoni, F.; U., /CERN /Louvain et al.
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