Measurement of heavy flavor production in $pp$ collisions at LHCb

TL;DR

This paper reports on measurements of heavy flavor production in proton-proton collisions at LHCb, focusing on fragmentation functions and production asymmetries for bottom hadrons, which are crucial for understanding QCD and CP violation.

Contribution

It presents new measurements of bottom hadron fragmentation functions and production asymmetries, providing essential inputs for other LHCb analyses.

Findings

Fragmentation functions measured for bottom hadrons.

Production asymmetries quantified for bottom hadrons.

Results support QCD predictions and CP violation studies.

Abstract

Heavy flavor productions are important tests of QCD. In proton-proton collisions collected at LHCb, a long list of measurements for charm and bottom productions have been made. This talk focuses on the studies of fragmentation functions and production asymmetries for bottom hadrons. They provide inputs for absolute branching fraction measurements and CP violation studies at LHCb respectively.