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Implementing invariant mass cuts and finite lifetime effects in top-antitop production at threshold

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-04-30 v1

Abstract

The effects of the finite top quark width in the top pair production cross section close to the threshold are discussed in this talk. We introduce a ttˉt\bar{t} cross section with a cut on the invariant masses of the top and antitop that can be calculated theoretically with effective field theory (EFT) methods. The matching procedure to implement the physical phase-space boundaries in the NRQCD framework (``phase-space matching'') is briefly outlined.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.0810.2934,
  title  = {Implementing invariant mass cuts and finite lifetime effects in top-antitop production at threshold},
  author = {Andre H. Hoang and Christoph J. Reisser and Pedro Ruiz-Femenia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0810.2934},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

4 pages, 4 figures. Talk given at the 14th International QCD Conference (Montpellier 7-12th July 2008)