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Ahrens, V; Ferroglia, A; Neubert, M; Pecjak, B D; Yang, L L (2011). Precision predictions for the tt ̄ production cross section at hadron colliders. Physics Letters B, 703(2):135-141.

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 MS 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.

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 MS 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.

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Other titles: Precision predictions for the t+t(bar) production cross section at hadron colliders Journal Article, refereed, original work 07 Faculty of Science > Institute for Computational Science 530 Physics English May 2011 19 Feb 2012 17:23 05 Apr 2016 15:23 Elsevier 0370-2693 (P) 1873-2445 (E) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2011.07.058 http://arxiv.org/abs/1105.5824