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We calculate the Next-to-Leading Order (NLO) QCD corrections to Z b anti-bproduction in hadronic collisions including full bottom-quark mass effects. Wepresent results for the total cross section and the invariant mass distributionof the bottom-quark jet pair at the Fermilab Tevatron p anti-p collider. Weperform a detailed comparison with a calculation that considers massless bottomquarks, as implemented in the Monte Carlo program MCFM. We find that neglectingbottom-quark mass effects overestimates the total NLO QCD cross section for Z banti-b production at the Tevatron by about 7%, independent of the choice of therenormalization and factorization scales. Moreover, bottom-quark mass effectscan impact the shape of the bottom-quark pair invariant mass distribution, inparticular in the low invariant mass region.

NLO QCD corrections to Z b anti-b production with massive bottom quarks at the Fermilab Tevatron