Comparative Study of the Hadronic Production of $B_c$ Mesons

Abstract

A comparative study of the full ${\alpha }_s^4$ perturbative QCD calculation of the hadronic production of the $B_c$ and $B_c^{\ast }$ mesons and the fragmentation approximation is presented. We examined the various subprocesses in detail and the distribution $C(z)$, where $z$ is twice the fraction of the $B_c$ or $B_c^{\ast }$ meson energy in the center of mass of the subprocess, which proved insightful and revealed the importance of certain non-fragmentation contributions. We concluded that the condition for the applicability of the fragmentation approximation in hadronic collisions is that the transverse momentum $P_T$ of the produced $B_c$ and $B_c^{\ast }$ be much larger than the mass of the $B_c$ meson; i.e., $P_T\gg M_{B_c}$. Numerical results for the cross sections at the Fermilab Tevatron are also presented using updated parton distribution functions with various kinematic cuts.

14 Pages, Latex File, 3 figures

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