Understanding Bottom Production
  We describe calculations of b b-bar production to next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) and next-to-next-to-leading logarithm (NNLL) near threshold in pp interactions. Our calculations are in good agreement with the b b-bar total cross section measured by HERA-B. 
N. Kidonakis (Rochester), E. Laenen (NIKHEF), S. Moch (Karlsruhe), and   R. Vogt (LBNL and UC Davis)