Inclusive heavy flavor hadroproduction in NLO QCD: the exact analytic result

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2009.08.020MaRDI QIDQ1960144zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michał Czakon, Alexander Mitov

Publication date 12 October 2010

Published in Nuclear Physics B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Copyright license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0811.4119

zbMATH Keywords

top quark pair productionpartonic threshold

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nuclear physics (81V35) Inelastic and multichannel quantum scattering (81U35) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05)

Abstract: We present the first exact analytic result for all partonic channels contributing to the total cross section for the production of a pair of heavy flavors in hadronic collisions in NLO QCD. Our calculation is an essential step in the derivation of the top quark pair production cross section at NNLO in QCD, which is a cornerstone of the precision LHC program. Our results uncover the analytical structures behind observables with heavy flavors at higher orders. They also reveal surprising and non-trivial implications for kinematics close to partonic threshold.

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