Charm and Bottom Production Measurements at the LHC

TL;DR

This paper discusses early measurements of beauty and heavy quarkonia production cross sections at the LHC using various experimental methods, and explores the potential to analyze polarization states from decay channels.

Contribution

It presents new strategies for measuring heavy quark production and polarization at the LHC with early data, enhancing understanding of QCD processes.

Findings

Feasible measurement of cross sections at 14 TeV with early data.

Different experimental approaches for heavy quark detection are evaluated.

Potential to extract polarization information from decay channels is demonstrated.

Abstract

Early data of the ATLAS and CMS experiments at the LHC will allow us to measure the cross sections for beauty and heavy quarkonia production in proton-proton collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 14 TeV to a reasonable precision. Different experimental approaches employing single or di-muon triggered events and b-tagging methods are discussed. The potential for extracting the polarization of vector states from the decays J/psi to mu+ mu- and Y to mu+ mu- is presented.