@article{490e05e7a8f143a58144ec32f9d45696,
title = "Measurement of the b -Quark Production Cross Section in 7 and 13 TeV pp Collisions",
abstract = "Measurements of the cross section for producing b quarks in the reaction pp→bbX are reported in 7 and 13 TeV collisions at the LHC as a function of the pseudorapidity η in the range 2<η<5 covered by the acceptance of the LHCb experiment. The measurements are done using semileptonic decays of b-flavored hadrons decaying into a ground-state charmed hadron in association with a muon. The cross sections in the covered η range are 72.0±0.3±6.8 and 154.3±1.5±14.3 μb for 7 and 13 TeV. The ratio is 2.14±0.02±0.13, where the quoted uncertainties are statistical and systematic, respectively. The agreement with theoretical expectation is good at 7 TeV, but differs somewhat at 13 TeV. The measured ratio of cross sections is larger at lower η than the model prediction.",
author = "{LHCb Collaboration} and R. Aaij and B. Adeva and M. Adinolfi and Z. Ajaltouni and S. Akar and J. Albrecht and F. Alessio and M. Alexander and S. Ali and G. Alkhazov and {Alvarez Cartelle}, P. and Alves, {A. A.} and S. Amato and S. Amerio and Y. Amhis and L. An and L. Anderlini and G. Andreassi and M. Andreotti and Andrews, {J. E.} and Appleby, {R. B.} and F. Archilli and P. D'Argent and {Arnau Romeu}, J. and A. Artamonov and M. Artuso and E. Aslanides and G. Auriemma and M. Baalouch and I. Babuschkin and S. Bachmann and Back, {J. J.} and A. Badalov and C. Baesso and S. Baker and W. Baldini and Barlow, {R. J.} and S. Bifani and G. Chatzikonstantinidis and N. Farley and P. Griffith and Kenyon, {I. R.} and C. Lazzeroni and A. Mazurov and J. McCarthy and L. Pescatore and A. Sergi and Watson, {N. K.} and T. Williams and Zarebski, {K. A.}",
year = "2017",
month = feb,
day = "3",
doi = "10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.052002",
language = "English",
volume = "118",
journal = "Physical Review Letters",
issn = "0031-9007",
publisher = "American Physical Society (APS)",
number = "5",
}