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Soft-gluon resummation for heavy quark production in hadronic collisions

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2009-10-31 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We discuss the heavy quark production cross section near partonic threshold in hadronic collisions, including the resummation of leading and next-to-leading logarithms arising from soft gluon emission. We show how to handle the complications due to the non-universal non-leading logarithms. We give analytical results for the qqˉq {\bar q} partonic subprocess and numerical results in the DIS scheme for top quark production at the Fermilab Tevatron where the qqˉq {\bar q} channel dominates.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/9806526,
  title  = {Soft-gluon resummation for heavy quark production in hadronic collisions},
  author = {Nikolaos Kidonakis and Ramona Vogt},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/9806526},
  year   = {2009}
}

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16 pages LaTeX including 4 eps figures, a few equations and some text added, figure 3 corrected, other small changes