Is There a Significant Excess in Bottom Hadroproduction at the Tevatron?
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✦ hep-ph
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excessbottomhadroproductiontevatronacceptableaccuratecrossdiscuss
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We discuss the excess in the hadroproduction of B mesons at the Tevatron. We show that an accurate use of up-to-date information on the B fragmentation function reduces the observed excess to an acceptable level. Possible implications for experimental results reporting bottom quark cross sections, also showing an excess with respect to next-to-leading order theoretical predictions, are discussed.
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