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Description
With the aim of targeting for clear signals of the stabilization of the high-energy resummation under higher-order corrections and energy-scale variation, we investigate the inclusive semi-hard production of two bottom-flavored hadrons, as well as a single bottom-flavored hadron accompanied by a light jet. Working within the hybrid high-energy and collinear factorization formalism, which encodes the BFKL resummation of energy logarithms up to NLL accuracy, we present predictions for cross sections differential in rapidity and transverse momentum, and for azimuthal-angle correlations. The fair stability the emergers from the analysis of our distributions motivates our interest toward future studies in wider kinematic ranges, as the ones reachable at new-generation colliding facilities (HL-LHC, the FPF, the EIC, and NICA). Here, our hybrid factorization could serve as an additional tool to improve the standard fixed-order description of heavy-flavored emissions and to possibly gauge the feasibility of precision studies of these channels in the high-energy regime.
