Perspectives on Heavy Flavour Production and Spectroscopy Studies at the LHC

TL;DR

This paper reviews the prospects for heavy flavour quark production and spectroscopy studies at the LHC, focusing on analysis strategies, quarkonium production, polarization, excited states, and inclusive b quark production at ATLAS and CMS.

Contribution

It provides an overview of analysis strategies and potential studies for heavy flavour physics at the LHC, highlighting new measurement approaches and reconstruction techniques.

Findings

Summary of trigger strategies for heavy flavour analyses

Potential for differential cross section and polarization measurements

Discussion of reconstruction of excited quarkonium states

Abstract

In this note we discuss prospects of analyses at the ATLAS and CMS experiments that are related to the production of heavy flavour quarks. Trigger strategies are summarized and a selection of studies is presented. These include quarkonium production studies such as the differential transverse momentum cross section measurement and polarization studies, as well as reconstruction of excited quarkonium states. Furthermore inclusive b quark production is discussed.