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Willenbrock, Scott S. Stack, John D. Willenbrock, Scott S. Neubauer, Mark S. Fields, Brian D. Link, William 2013-02-03T19:35:30Z 2013-02-03T19:35:30Z 2012-12 2013-02-03T19:35:30Z 2012-12 In this thesis, I present a next-to-leading-order (NLO) calculation for the production of two jets, at least one of which contains a charm quark, which is an important background to single-top production. I discuss the leading order results and their scale dependence before outlining the difficulties of an NLO calculation, and the need for treating the charm quarks as massive in a few areas of the calculation. The NLO corrections turn out to be rather modest, but taking the calculation to NLO greatly improves scale uncertainty. Item withdrawn by Mark Zulauf (zulauf@illinois.edu) on 2012-09-11T18:33:07Z Item was in collections: University of Illinois Theses & Dissertations (ID: 1) No. of bitstreams: 1 Link_William.pdf: 354532 bytes, checksum: 826b87655f0240cee869426e50fe0ac4 (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2013-02-03T19:35:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 William_Link.pdf: 362186 bytes, checksum: 10f30b9229192178ef71ed88568642a3 (MD5) license.txt: 4062 bytes, checksum: f008e8eb4c699812610d7046e5608151 (MD5) http://hdl.handle.net/2142/42328 en Copyright 2012 William Link next-to-leading-order (NLO) quantum chromodynamics (QCD) charm quark A next-to-leading-order calculation of proton-proton(proton-antiproton) to two jets, at least one of which contains a charm quark text Physics 1244 Physics 0240 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Dissertation Ph.D. PHD:Physics -UIUC 10KS0240PHD