# NNLO QCD subtraction for top-antitop production in the $q\bar{q}$ channel

Abelof, Gabriel; Gehrmann-De Ridder, Aude; Maierhoefer, Philipp; Pozzorini, Stefano (2014). NNLO QCD subtraction for top-antitop production in the $q\bar{q}$ channel. Journal of High Energy Physics, 1408:035.

## Abstract

We present the computation of the double real and real-virtual contributions to top-antitop pair production in the quark-antiquark channel at leading colour. The TeX → TeX amplitudes contributing to the real-virtual part are computed with OpenLoops, and their numerical stability in the soft and collinear regions is found to be sufficiently high to perform a realistic NNLO calculation in double precision. The subtraction terms required at real-real and real-virtual levels are constructed within the antenna subtraction formalism extended to deal with the presence of coloured massive final state particles. We show that those subtraction terms approximate the real-real and real-virtual matrix elements in all their singular limits.

## Abstract

We present the computation of the double real and real-virtual contributions to top-antitop pair production in the quark-antiquark channel at leading colour. The TeX → TeX amplitudes contributing to the real-virtual part are computed with OpenLoops, and their numerical stability in the soft and collinear regions is found to be sufficiently high to perform a realistic NNLO calculation in double precision. The subtraction terms required at real-real and real-virtual levels are constructed within the antenna subtraction formalism extended to deal with the presence of coloured massive final state particles. We show that those subtraction terms approximate the real-real and real-virtual matrix elements in all their singular limits.

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Item Type: Journal Article, refereed, original work 07 Faculty of Science > Physics Institute 530 Physics English 2014 25 Feb 2015 11:51 27 Apr 2017 23:45 Springer 1029-8479 https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2014)035

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