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Bottom Quark Fragmentation in Top Quark Decay

Gennaro Corcella, Alexander D. Mitov

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/0110319

Abstract

We study the fragmentation of the b quark in top decay in NLO QCD, within the framework of perturbative fragmentation, which allows one to resum large logarithms (mt2/mb2). We show the b-energy distribution, which we compare with the exact O (αS) result for a massive b quark. We use data from e+e- machines in order to describe the b-quark hadronization and make predictions for the energy spectrum of b-flavoured hadrons in top decay. We also investigate the effect of NLL soft-gluon resummation in the initial condition of the perturbative fragmentation function on parton- and hadron-level energy distributions.

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