Bottom production in Photon and Pomeron -- induced interactions at the LHC

TL;DR

This paper compares bottom quark production across various photon and Pomeron induced interactions at the LHC, providing detailed predictions for cross sections and feasibility analyses for experimental detection.

Contribution

It offers a comprehensive calculation of bottom production in multiple interaction channels at the LHC, including realistic predictions for the LHCb experiment.

Findings

Single diffractive events are feasible to analyze with Run I LHCb data.

Predictions cover transverse momentum, pseudo-rapidity, and $\xi$ dependencies.

The study uses the Forward Physics Monte Carlo for realistic modeling.

Abstract

In this paper we present a detailed comparison of the bottom production in gluon -- gluon, photon -- gluon, photon -- photon, pomeron -- gluon, pomeron -- pomeron and pomeron -- photon interactions at the LHC. The transverse momentum, pseudo -- rapidity and $\xi$ dependencies of the cross sections are calculated at LHC energy using the Forward Physics Monte Carlo (FPMC), which allows to obtain realistic predictions for the bottom production with one or two leading intact protons. Moreover, predictions for the the kinematical range probed by the LHCb Collaboration are also presented. Our results indicate that the analysis of the single diffractive events is feasible using the Run I LHCb data.