General mass variable flavor number scheme for Z boson production in association with a heavy quark at hadron colliders
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: We present a methodology to streamline implementation of massive-quark radiative contributions in calculations with a variable number of active partons in proton-proton collisions. The methodology introduces and heavy-quark parton distribution functions (PDFs) to implement calculations in the Aivazis–Collins–Olness–Tung (ACOT) factorization scheme and its simplified realization in various processes up to the next-to-the-next-to-leading order in the QCD coupling strength. Interpolation tables for bottom-quark subtraction and residual distributions for CT18 NLO and NNLO PDF ensembles are provided in the common LHAPDF6 format. A numerical calculation of Z -boson production with at least one b jet at the Large Hadron Collider beyond the lowest order in QCD is considered for illustration purposes. Published by the American Physical Society 2024
Language: English
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Awards: G2595738051, RESEARCH AT THE ENERGY FRONTIER AT SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY, Theoretical Calculations for Particle Physics at Hadron Colliders, Particle Theory for High-Energy Collider Physics, Refining Searches for Physics Beyond the Standard Model, G638484911, FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, Physics at the Frontier: Colliders to Cosmology, Programs on Critical Problems in Physics, Astrophysics and Biophysics at the Aspen Center for Physics, Global QCD Analysis and Precision Electroweak Physics in High Energy Collier Phenomenology, Physics at the Frontier: From Colliders to Cosmology
OpenAlex ID: W4405635218