Sorry, I should have pointed out that this was a conditional expression Im[b^2] != 0 || Re[b^2] >= 0]
, and Mathematica calculated this from Integrate[(p^2 (p^2 + 1)^(3/2))/(b^2 + p^2)^4, {p, 0, Infinity}]
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I am unsure how to do a loop in Mathematica to construct a table of the value of the the minimum expression, and the value of "b" where the minimum occurs, either using NMinimize or Minimize i.e. vary alpha from 0.01,0.02,...0.1,0.2,0.3....1.0,1.1...2.0, and vary [Mu] from 0.01,0.02,..0.1,0.2,0.3....1.0,1.1,....10. It's an uneven grid, so alpha values go from 0.01 in increments of 0.01, then from 0.9 to 2.0 in increments of 0.1 etc.
NMinimize[{(-((4 *alpha* b^3)/(2 b + \[Mu])^2) + (
64 b^5 (6 b + 4 b^3 - 16 b^5 + (3 Sqrt[1/b^2] b \[Pi])/Sqrt[
1 - b^2] - (6 ArcSin[b])/Sqrt[1 - b^2]))/((96 b^5 -
96 b^7) \[Pi]))/(1 + b^2), 0 <= b <= 0.9999999}, {b}]
An aside is the problem that evaluating D(-((4 alpha b^3)/(2 b + \[Mu])^2) + (
64 b^5 (6 b + 4 b^3 - 16 b^5 + (3 Sqrt[1/b^2] b \[Pi])/Sqrt[
1 - b^2] - (6 ArcSin[b])/Sqrt[1 - b^2]))/((96 b^5 -
96 b^7) \[Pi]))/(1 + b^2), b]
, then equating the result to == 0, and solving it -- the calculation doesn't complete even after 15 minutes. Same is the case if numerical differentiation is performed and the result equated to 0.