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Inclusive B-Meson Production in e+ e- and p p-bar Collisions

J. Binnewies, B. A. Kniehl, G. Kramer

hep-pharXiv:hep-ph/9802231

Abstract

We provide nonperturbative fragmentation functions for B mesons, both at leading and next-to-leading order in the MS-bar factorization scheme with five massless quark flavors. They are determined by fitting the fractional energy distribution of B mesons inclusively produced in e+ e- annihilation at CERN LEP1. Theoretical predictions for the inclusive production of B mesons with high transverse momenta in p p-bar scattering obtained with these fragmentation functions nicely agree, both in shape and normalization, with data recently taken at the Fermilab Tevatron.

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