Associated Production of a Z Boson and a Single Heavy-Quark Jet
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The leading-order process for the production of a Z boson and a heavy-quark jet at hadron colliders is gQ → ZQ (Q = c, b). We calculate this cross section at next-toleading order at the Tevatron and the LHC, and compare it with other sources of ZQ events. This process is a background to new physics, and can be used to measure the heavy-quark distribution function. Mail address: Dipartimento di Fisica, Terza Università di Roma, via della Vasca Navale 84, 00146 Rome, Italy
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تاریخ انتشار 2008