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NLO QCD corrections to the production of two bottom-antibottom pairs at the LHC

  • 1. Illinois Univ., Urbana-Champaign, IL (United States). Dept. of Physics
  • 2. Freiburg Univ. (Germany). Physikalisches Inst.
  • 3. Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik, Muenchen (Germany)
  • 4. Nationaal Inst. voor Kernfysica en Hoge-Energiefysica (NIKHEF), Amsterdam (Netherlands)
  • 5. Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany)

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We report the results of a computation of the full next-to-leading order QCD corrections to the production of two b anti b pairs at the LHC. This calculation at the parton level provides predictions for well separated b-jets. The results show that the next-to-leading order corrections lead to an enhancement of the cross-section for the central scale choice by roughly 50% with respect to the leading order result. The theoretical uncertainty estimated by variation of the renormalization and factorization scales is strongly reduced by the inclusion of next-to-leading order corrections. (orig.)

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4 p.
ISSN
0418-9833
Report number
DESY--11-079

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