Production of b b ¯ at forward rapidity in p+p collisions at s =510 GeV PRODUCTION of b b ¯ at FORWARD RAPIDITY ... ACHARYA U et al..
The cross section of bottom quark-antiquark (bb¯) production in p+p collisions at s=510 GeV is measured with the PHENIX detector at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider. The results are based on the yield of high mass, like-sign muon pairs measured within the PHENIX muon arm acceptance (1.21 GeV/c, and dimuon mass of 5-10 GeV/c2. The extrapolated total cross section at this energy for bb¯ productio