Heavy Quark Hadroproduction in Perturbative QCD

Abstract

Existing calculations of heavy quark hadroproduction in perturbative QCD are either based on the approximate conventional zero-mass perturbative QCD theory or on next-to-leading order (NLO) fixed-flavor-number (FFN) scheme which is inadequate at high energies. We formulate this problem in the general mass variable-flavor-number scheme which incorporates initial/final state heavy quark parton distribution/fragmentation functions as well as exact mass dependence in the hard cross-section. This formalism has the built-in feature of reducing to the FFN scheme near threshold, and to the conventional zero-mass parton picture in the very high energy limit. Making use of existing calculations in NLO FFN scheme, we obtain more complete results on bottom production in the general scheme to order α_s^3 both for current accelerator energies and for LHC. The scale dependence of the cross-section is reduced, and the magnitude is increased with respect to the NLO FFN results. It is shown that the bulk of the large NLO FFN contribution to the single heavy-quark inclusive cross-section is already contained in the (resummed) order α_s^2 ``heavy flavor excitation'' term in the general scheme.

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