The production of Bc and B＊ mesons at a Z-factory （an e＋e- collider operating at energies around the Z pole） is calculated up to the next-to-leading order （NLO） QCD accuracy. The results show that the dependence...The production of Bc and B＊ mesons at a Z-factory （an e＋e- collider operating at energies around the Z pole） is calculated up to the next-to-leading order （NLO） QCD accuracy. The results show that the dependence of the total cross sections on the renormalization scale/1 is suppressed by the corrections, and the NLO corrections enhance the total cross sections of B,. by 52% and of Bc＊ by 33% when the renormalization scale is taken at μ = 2mb. To observe the various behaviors of the production of the mesons Bc and Bc＊, such as the differential cross section vs. the out-going angle, the forward-backward asymmetry, and the distribution vs. the energy fraction z up to NLO QCD accuracy as well as the relevant K-factor （NLO to LO） for the production, are calculated, and it is pointed out that some of the observables obtained in the present work may be used as a specific precision test of the standard model.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.11275243,11275036,11447601,11535002,and 11675239)
文摘The production of Bc and B＊ mesons at a Z-factory （an e＋e- collider operating at energies around the Z pole） is calculated up to the next-to-leading order （NLO） QCD accuracy. The results show that the dependence of the total cross sections on the renormalization scale/1 is suppressed by the corrections, and the NLO corrections enhance the total cross sections of B,. by 52% and of Bc＊ by 33% when the renormalization scale is taken at μ = 2mb. To observe the various behaviors of the production of the mesons Bc and Bc＊, such as the differential cross section vs. the out-going angle, the forward-backward asymmetry, and the distribution vs. the energy fraction z up to NLO QCD accuracy as well as the relevant K-factor （NLO to LO） for the production, are calculated, and it is pointed out that some of the observables obtained in the present work may be used as a specific precision test of the standard model.
