First measurements of beauty quark production at {\surd}s = 7 TeV with the CMS experiment
arXiv:1011.5212 · doi:10.1016/j.nuclphysa.2011.02.099
Abstract
This article summarizes the first measurements of inclusive beauty production cross section in proton-proton collisions at sqrt(s)=7 TeV and central rapidities. The results are based on different techniques, such as the identification of semileptonic b-decays into muons and inclusive jet measurements with secondary vertex tagging. The measurements probe b-quark production in different regions of transverse momenta. The experimental results are compared with next-to-leading order QCD predictions and various Monte Carlo models.
4 pages, 2 figures. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Hard and Electromagnetic Probes of High Energy Nuclear Collisions (HP2010)