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A limit on top quark pair production at future electron-proton colliders

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2026-02-24 v1

Abstract

The ratio of the structure functions for deep inelastic scattering in top pair production at future electron-proton colliders is analyzed at a fixed s\sqrt{s} and Q2Q^2 relative to the minimum value of xx given by Q2/sQ^2/s using collinear factorization. This compact formula for the ratio FL2(Q2/s,Q2,mt)F_{L2}(Q^2/s,Q^2,m_{t}) is useful for extracting a bound on the top structure function. The reduced cross-section for top production at this limit is determined, establishing a bound value for ttt\overline{t} production at the LHeC and FCC-eh center-of-mass energies based on renormalization scales. The modification of the Bjorken scaling is applied to this bound of the reduced top cross-section at the renormalization scale μ2=Q2+4mt2\mu^2=Q^2+4m_{t}^{2}, which improves the scaling quantity at Q2<4mt2Q^2{<}4m_{t}^{2}. The dipole cross-section for top pair production is examined across a wide range of dipole sizes, denoted as rr. It is expected that there will be limited behavior in observing top saturation in future electron-proton colliders according to the bound behavior. The probability of the Higgs boson in γg\gamma^{*}g interactions is compared to the gggg process at the order of O(αem/αs)\mathcal{O}(\alpha^{\mathrm{em}}/\alpha_{s}).

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@article{arxiv.2602.18809,
  title  = {A limit on top quark pair production at future electron-proton colliders},
  author = {G. R. Boroun},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.18809},
  year   = {2026}
}