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We present a study within the k T -factorisation scheme on single bottom quark production at the LHC. In particular, we calculate the rapidity and transverse momentum differential distributions for single bottom quark/anti-quark production. In our setup, the unintegrated gluon density is obtained from the NLx BFKL Green function whereas we included mass effects to the Lx heavy quark jet vertex. We compare our results to the corresponding distributions predicted by the usual collinear factorisation scheme. The latter were produced with Pythia 8.1.
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Chachamis, G., Deák, M., Hentschinski, M. et al. Single bottom quark production in k ⊥-factorisation. J. High Energ. Phys. 2015, 123 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP09(2015)123
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