Beauty and Charm Production Cross Section Measurements at the Tevatron

TL;DR

This paper reports recent measurements of beauty and charm quark production at the Tevatron, testing QCD models across perturbative and non-perturbative regimes through various cross section and polarization studies.

Contribution

It presents new experimental results on heavy quark production, including correlated b-bbar pairs, psi(2S), and Upsilon polarization, advancing understanding of QCD processes.

Findings

Measured correlated b-bbar production cross section

Determined psi(2S) production cross section

Analyzed Upsilon(1S) and Upsilon(2S) polarization

Abstract

Heavy quark production probes QCD at the interface of the perturbative and non-perturbative regimes. Studying the production of heavy quarks is an important test of models in both regimes. In this article, recent results on beauty and charm production from the CDF and D0 experiments at the Tevatron are reported. These include measurements of correlated b-bbar production, the psi(2S) production cross section, and Upsilon(1S) and Upsilon(2S) polarization.