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Processes leading to b-quark production at the LHC energies are simulated by using the Pythia generator. For proton-proton interactions at 7 and 14 TeV, the cross sections for b-quark production are evaluated for three mechanisms that are taken into account in the Pythia generator. These are quark-pair production, the excitation of sea quarks, and gluon splitting. Correlations of azimuthal angles of b-quark emission and properties of accompanying particles in events induced by the various mechanisms of b-quark production are calculated. The results are compared with data from the CDF experiment.
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Original Russian Text © A.S. Boldyrev, A.A. Martynov, S.Yu. Sivoklokov, L.N. Smirnova, S.M. Turchikhin, 2011, published in Yadernaya Fizika, 2011, Vol. 74, No. 12, pp. 1712–1720.
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Boldyrev, A.S., Martynov, A.A., Sivoklokov, S.Y. et al. Production and correlations of b quarks at the LHC energies. Phys. Atom. Nuclei 74, 1676–1683 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063778811070039
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