The production of supersymmetric stop-antistop pairs at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is studied including corrections from soft-gluon resummation up to next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic (NNLL) accuracy in the Mellin-space approach. Additionally, corrections to the hard-matching coefficient at one-loop and Coulomb contributions at two-loop order are considered. The NNLL corrections enhance the cross section for all stop masses at centre-of-mass energies of 8 and 13 TeV compared to the previously calculated predictions at next-to-leading logarithmic (NLL) accuracy. Furthermore, a slight increase in the dependence on the additional stop-mixing parameters is observed.
@article{arxiv.1601.02954,
title = {NNLL resummation for stop pair-production at the LHC},
author = {Wim Beenakker and Christoph Borschensky and Raphael Heger and Michael Krämer and Anna Kulesza and Eric Laenen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.02954},
year = {2016}
}