Associated Production of a Z Boson and a Single Heavy-Quark Jet
arXiv:hep-ph/0312024 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.69.074021
Abstract
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-to-leading 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.
15 pages, 9 figures. Version to appear in Phys. Rev. D