Bottom Production Asymmetries at the LHC

Abstract

We present results on bottom hadron production asymmetries at the LHC within both the Lund string fragmentation model and the intrinsic bottom model. The main aspects of the models are summarized and specific predictions for pp collisions at 14 TeV are given. Asymmetries are found to be very small at central rapidities increasing to a few percent at forward rapidities. At very large rapidities intrinsic production could dominate but this region is probably out of reach of any experiment.

arXiv comment12 pages, 5 figures. To appear in the proceedings of the "CERN 1999 Workshop on SM physics (and more) at the LHC"

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