Heavy Flavor Production in CDF II Detector

TL;DR

This paper reports measurements of charm and bottom quark production cross-sections using CDF II detector data, comparing results with advanced NLO QCD predictions to test theoretical models of heavy flavor production.

Contribution

It provides new experimental measurements of heavy flavor production cross-sections at Tevatron energies, utilizing large reconstructed hadron samples and advanced trigger techniques.

Findings

Measured charm and bottom cross-sections agree with NLO QCD predictions.

Utilized tracking and calorimeter triggers for comprehensive data collection.

Enhanced understanding of heavy flavor production mechanisms.

Abstract

For data collected with the CDF Run II detector, measurements of the charm and bottom production cross-sections are presented. The results are based both on large samples of fully reconstructed hadron decay products of charm and bottom made available by the tracking triggers and on a calorimeter jet triggered sample tagged by the presence of a secondary vertex. The experimental data are compared with theoretical predictions from recent next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD calculations.