Open $B$-hadron production at hadron colliders in QCD at next-to-next-to-leading-order and next-to-next-to-leading-logarithmic accuracy

Abstract

We report on a calculation of open heavy-flavor production at hadron colliders which extends to next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) accuracy the classic NLO-accurate formalism developed almost 30 years ago under the acronym FONLL. The approach retains the exact heavy-flavor mass dependence at low transverse momentum, $p_T$, and resums collinear logarithms through next-to-next-to-leading log (NNLL) at high $p_T$. Provided are predictions for $B$-hadrons as well as $B$-decay products like $J/\Psi$ and muons. The main features of the NNLO+NNLL results are reduced scale dependence and moderate NNLO correction, consistent with perturbative convergence in a wide range of kinematic scales from few GeV up to asymptotically large values of $p_T$. The new calculation significantly improves the agreement with data for $B$-hadrons and muons. We uncover an intriguing discrepancy in $J/\Psi$ final states which may point to a lower value of the $B\to J/\Psi$ decay rate.

Published version, 6 pages, 5 figures

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