Review of Beauty Production at HERA and Elsewhere
arXiv:0711.1983
Abstract
Experimental results on beauty production at HERA are reviewed in the context of similar measurements at other colliders. As a result of a phenomenological study of the QCD scale dependence of many different NLO and NNLO predictions, a modification of the ``default'' scale choice is advocated. Experimental constraints on the photon-quark coupling are also investigated.
contribution to DIS07, April 16-20, Munich, Germany; v2: correction of ref. 28