Hadronic top-quark pair production with NNLL threshold resummation

DOI10.1016/J.NUCLPHYSB.2011.10.021zbMATH Open1229.81338arXiv1109.1536OpenAlexW2158246313MaRDI QIDQ659435FDOQ659435

Juan-Miguel Gracia

Publication date: 18 January 2012

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

Abstract: We compute the total top-quark pair production cross section at the Tevatron and LHC based on approximate NNLO results, and on the summation of threshold logarithms and Coulomb enhancements to all orders with next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic (NNLL) accuracy, including bound-state effects. We find sigma_{t�ar t} = 7.22^{+0.31+0.71}_{-0.47-0.55} pb at Tevatron and sigma_{t�ar t} = 162.6^{+7.4+15.4}_{-7.6-14.7} pb at LHC with 7 TeV c.o.m. energy, for m_t=173.3 GeV. The implementation of joint soft and Coulomb resummation, its ambiguities, and the present theoretical uncertainty are discussed in detail. We further obtain new approximate results at N3LO.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1109.1536

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nuclear physics (81V35) Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) Inelastic and multichannel quantum scattering (81U35) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05)

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• HarmonicSums

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