Rise and Fall of the Bottom Quark Production Excess

Abstract

We review the history of comparisons between bottom production measurements and QCD predictions. We challenge the existence of a `significant discrepancy', and argue that standard approaches to QCD calculations do a good job in describing the experimental findings.Comment: Talk given at the La Thuile (February 2004), Moriond QCD (March 2004), IFAE (April 2004) and Loops and Legs (April 2004) conferences. To be published, in slightly modified forms, in their respective Proceeding