W plus Heavy Quark Production at the Tevatron

Abstract

We present the next-to-leading order QCD corrections to the production of a $W$-boson in association with a jet containing a heavy quark. The calculation is fully differential in the final state particle momenta and includes the mass of the heavy quark. We study for the case of the Tevatron the sensitivity of the cross section to the strange quark distribution function, the dependence of the cross section on the heavy quark mass, the transverse momentum distribution of the jet containing the heavy quark, and the momentum distribution of the heavy quark in the jet.

To appear in Proceedings of DESY-Zeuthen workshop: "QCD and QED in higher orders" 7 pages, Latex, uses espcrc2.sty (included)

References in corpus (8)

• Observation of Top Quark Production in Pbar-P Collisions
• Observation of the Top Quark
• Higher Order Corrections to Jet Cross Sections in Hadron Colliders
• CTEQ Parton Distributions and Flavor Dependence of Sea Quarks
• Large $\pt$ Hadroproduction of Heavy Quarks
• QCD Corrections to W Boson plus Heavy Quark Production at the Tevatron
• The Charm Content of W+1 Jet Events as a Probe of the Strange Quark Distribution Function
• Cross Sections for Charm Production in $ep$ Collisions: Massive versus Massless Scheme

Cited by in corpus (5)

• Next-to-leading order corrections to W+2 jet and Z+2 jet production at hadron colliders
• Observation of Single Top Quark Production and Measurement of |Vtb| with CDF
• The Strange Parton Distribution of the Nucleon: Global Analysis and Applications
• The Ratio of W + N jets To Z/gamma + N jets As a Precision Test of the Standard Model
• Predictions for Neutrino Structure Functions