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Bound-state effects on kinematical distributions of top quarks at hadron colliders

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-06-08 v3

Abstract

First we present a theoretical framework to compute the fully differential cross sections for the top-quark productions and their subsequent decays at hadron colliders, incorporating the bound-state effects which are important in the t\bar{t} threshold region. We include the bound-state effects such that the cross sections are correct in the LO approximation both in the threshold and high-energy regions. Then, based on this framework we compute various kinematical distributions of top quarks as well as of their decay products at the LHC, by means of Monte-Carlo event-generation. These are compared with the corresponding predictions based on conventional perturbative QCD. In particular, we find a characteristic bound-state effect on the (bW^+)-(\bar{b}W^-) double-invariant-mass distribution, which is deformed to the lower invariant-mass side in a correlated manner.

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@article{arxiv.1007.0075,
  title  = {Bound-state effects on kinematical distributions of top quarks at hadron colliders},
  author = {Yukinari Sumino and Hiroshi Yokoya},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1007.0075},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

40 pages, 25 figures; minor corrections, references added; a typo in Eq. (B.9) corrected