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Next-to-Leading-Order Corrections to the Production of Heavy-Flavour Jets in e+e- Collisions
In this paper we describe the calculation of the process e+e- -> Z/gamma ->
QQbar + X, where Q is a heavy quark, at order alpha_s^2.Comment: 49 pages, Latex, epsfig, 6 figures. Tables 2 and 3 labels and
captions have been fixe
The design and performance of a high efficiency power conversion system for use with the WJ-274 traveling-wave tube Final report, phase I
Design and performance of high efficiency power conversion system for use with WJ-274 traveling wave tube compatible with extraterrestrial environments - spaceborne communication
On the Fragmentation Function for Heavy Quarks in e+e- collisions
We use a recent O(alpha_s^2) calculation of the differential cross section
for the production of heavy quarks in e+e- annihilation to compute a few
moments of the heavy quark single-inclusive production cross section. We verify
that, contrary to some recent claims, the leading and next-to-leading
logarithmic terms in this cross section are correctly given by the standard NLO
fragmentation function formalism for heavy quark production.Comment: 14 pages, Latex, epsfig, 4 figure
NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE REFORM AND REGIONAL DEVOLUTION IN ITALY: ARE THEY CONSISTENT WITH THE PUBLIC FINANCE STRATEGY? A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF THE PRESENT SITUATION IN THE FRIULI VENEZIA GIULIA REGION
The demographic and epidemiological transition and the increased share of public health spending in total spending over the last 35 years has forced the central government in Italy to reform the National Health Service
Wbbj production at NLO with POWHEG+MiNLO
We present a next-to-leading order plus parton-shower event generator for the
production of a W boson plus two bottom quarks and a jet at hadron colliders,
implemented in the POWHEG BOX framework. Bottom-mass effects and spin
correlations of the decay products of the W boson are fully taken into account.
The code has been automatically generated using the two available interfaces to
MadGraph4 and GoSam, the last one updated to a new version. We have applied the
MiNLO prescription to our Wbbj calculation, obtaining a finite differential
cross section also in the limit of vanishing jet transverse momentum.
Furthermore, we have compared several key distributions for Wbbj production
with those generated with a next-to-leading order plus parton-shower event
generator for Wbb production, and studied their factorization- and
renormalization-scale dependence. Finally, we have compared our results with
recent experimental data from the ATLAS and CMS Collaborations.Comment: Version as accepted for publication. Added references, one table and
one figure. All the rest is the same as version
Power-suppressed effects in heavy quark fragmentation functions
This talk summarizes the results of a phenomenological analysis of heavy
quark fragmentation data published by the CLEO and BELLE collaborations at
\sqrt{s} = 10.6 GeV and by the LEP collaborations at \sqrt{s} = 91.2 GeV.
Several theoretical ingredients are employed: next-to-leading order initial
conditions, evolution and coefficient functions; soft-gluon resummation to
next-to-leading-log accuracy; a next-to-leading order matching condition for
the crossing of the bottom threshold in the evolution. Important initial-state
electromagnetic radiation effects in the CLEO and BELLE data are also accounted
for. We find that with reasonably simple choices of a non-perturbative
correction to the fixed-order initial condition for the evolution, the data
from CLEO and BELLE can be fitted with remarkable accuracy. The fitted
fragmentation function, when evolved to LEP energies, does not however
represent fairly the D* fragmentation spectrum measured by ALEPH. Large
non-perturbative corrections to the coefficient functions of the meson spectrum
are needed in order to reconcile CLEO/BELLE and ALEPH results.Comment: Latex, 9 pages, talk given by M. Cacciari at FRIF workshop on first
principles non-perturbative QCD of hadron jets, LPTHE, Paris, France, 12-14
Jan 200
Crossing Heavy-Flavour Thresholds in Fragmentation Functions
In analogy with parton distribution functions, also parton fragmentation
functions obey matching conditions when crossing heavy-flavour thresholds. We
compute these matching conditions at next-to-leading order in the strong
coupling constant alpha_s in the MSbar scheme. Our results can be used for the
dynamical generation of the heavy-flavour component in next-to-leading order
fits to light-hadrons fragmentation functions. Furthermore, when computing
perturbatively the charm fragmentation function from first principles and
evolving it to higher scales, our matching conditions should be used for
consistency when crossing the bottom threshold.Comment: 9 pages, 2 figure
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