B-meson production in the general-mass variable-flavour-number scheme and LHC data

M. Benzke; B. A. Kniehl; G. Kramer; I. Schienbein; H. Spiesberger

doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-7326-y

paper

B-meson production in the general-mass variable-flavour-number scheme and LHC data

arXiv:1907.12456 · doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-7326-y

Abstract

We study inclusive $B$ -meson production in $pp$ collisions at the LHC and compare experimental data with predictions of the general-mass variable-flavour-number scheme at next-to-leading order of perturbative QCD. We find almost perfect agreement provided that the factorization scale parameters and the parton distribution functions are chosen appropriately.

15 pages, 12 figures