A limit on top quark pair production at future electron-proton colliders
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 and relative to the minimum value of given by using collinear factorization. This compact formula for the ratio 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 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 , which improves the scaling quantity at . The dipole cross-section for top pair production is examined across a wide range of dipole sizes, denoted as . 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 interactions is compared to the process at the order of .
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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}
}