Electroweak corrections to b-jet and di-jet production

Abstract

Simultaneously with the turning-on of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) the data taking for jet production rates will start. The study of these production rates is an important test of the Standard Model in the new energy regime accessible at the LHC. In order to discriminate possible extensions of the Standard Model accurate theoretical predictions are needed. We investigate the next-to-leading order weak corrections for bottom-quark jet and di-jet production at the LHC and find detectable effects in transverse momentum distributions.

6 pages, 9 figures, to be published in the proceedings of DPF-2009, Detroit, MI, July 2009, eConfC090726