Revisiting $B_c^{(\ast )}$ production in $Z$-boson decays at NLO in QCD

Qi-Wei Ke, Lei Guo, Jun Zeng +1

We study $B_c^{(\ast )}$ production in $Z$-boson decays at next-to-leading order (NLO) in QCD within the color-singlet nonrelativistic QCD framework. The analysis covers both the $1S$…