Next-to-leading order QCD corrections to three-jet rates with massive quarks

Abstract

The reaction e + e − annihilation into three jets was recently computed for massive quarks at next-to-leading order in perturbative QCD. We discuss some results of our calculation for b jets produced at the Z resonance.

QCD at the FCC-ee

“…Similarly, the production of heavy (notably bottom) quarks e + e − → Z /γ * → Q Q + X can be described at NNLO in QCD using the predictions of refs. [34][35][36] and [12]. For higher jet-multiplicities, the computation of QCD radiative corrections with massless final-state partons has been pushed to NLO for e + e − → Z /γ * → n jets with n = 5 [37], and n = 6, 7 [38].…”