Precision predictions for the t+t(bar)
production cross section at hadron colliders.

Ahrens, Valentin; Ferroglia, Andrea; Neubert, Matthias; Pecjak, Ben D.; Yang, Li Lin

Abstract

We make use of recent results in effective theory and higher-order perturbative calculations to improve the theoretical predictions of the top-quark pair production cross section at hadron colliders. In particular, we supplement the fixed-order NLO calculation with higher-order corrections from soft gluon resummation at NNLL accuracy. Uncertainties due to power corrections to the soft limit are estimated by combining results from single-particle inclusive and pair invariant-mass kinematics. We present our predictions as functions of the top-quark mass in both the pole scheme and the View the MathML source scheme. We also discuss the merits of using threshold masses as an alternative, and calculate the cross section with the top-quark mass defined in the 1S scheme as an illustrative example.

Citation

Ahrens, V., Ferroglia, A., Neubert, M., Pecjak, B. D., & Yang, L. L. (2011). production cross section at hadron colliders. Physics Letters B, 703(2), 135-141. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2011.07.058

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: 2011-09
• Deposit Date: Nov 20, 2012
• Journal: Physics Letters B
• Print ISSN: 0370-2693
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 703
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 135-141
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2011.07.058