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Higher-order corrections for $tW$ production at high-energy hadron colliders

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2021-06-16 v2

Abstract

We discuss cross sections for tWtW production in proton-proton collisions at the LHC and at higher-energy colliders with energies of up to 100 TeV. We find that, remarkably, the soft-gluon corrections are numerically dominant even at very high collider energies. We present results with soft-gluon corrections at approximate NNLO and approximate N3^3LO matched to complete NLO results. These higher-order corrections are large and need to be included for better theoretical accuracy and smaller scale dependence. Total cross sections as well as top-quark and WW-boson transverse-momentum and rapidity distributions are presented using various recent sets of parton distribution functions.

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@article{arxiv.2102.11300,
  title  = {Higher-order corrections for $tW$ production at high-energy hadron colliders},
  author = {Nikolaos Kidonakis and Nodoka Yamanaka},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2102.11300},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

15 pages, 10 figures; v2 has a lot of new material and several additional plots, and it will appear in JHEP