Single bottom quark production in kT-factorisation

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We present a study within the kT-factorisation scheme on single bottom quark production at the LHC.

• In particular, we calculate the rapidity and transverse momentum differential distributions for single bottom quark/anti-quark production.
• In our setup, the unintegrated gluon density is obtained from the NLx BFKL Green function whereas we included mass effects to the Lx heavy quark jet vertex.
• We compare our results to the corresponding distributions predicted by the usual collinear factorisation scheme.