{"paper":{"title":"$B_c$ meson production at the Tevatron Revisited","license":"","headline":"","cross_cats":[],"primary_cat":"hep-ph","authors_text":"Kingman Cheung (UC-Davis)","submitted_at":"1999-08-18T22:30:57Z","abstract_excerpt":"CDF recently measured the quantity $\\frac{\\sigma(B_c^+)}{\\sigma(B^+)} \\frac{{\\rm BR}(B_c^+ \\to J/\\psi \\ell^+ \\nu)}{{\\rm BR}(B^+ \\to J/\\psi K^+)}$, {}from which we determine the ratio $\\frac{\\sigma(B_c^+)}{\\sigma(\\bar b)}$ to be $(2.08\\err{1.06}{0.95})\\times 10^{-3}$. In this note, we show that the ratio $\\frac{\\sigma(B_c^+)}{\\sigma(\\bar b)}$ obtained by dividing the $\\sigma(B_c^+)$ by the leading order $\\sigma(\\bar b)$ is consistent with this derived CDF measurement. We calculate the cross section $\\sigma(B_c^+)$ using the perturbative QCD fragmentation functions of Braaten, Cheung, and Yuan a"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"hep-ph/9908405","kind":"arxiv","version":3},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}