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Top-quark Pair Production in a Running Mass Scheme

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2013-11-05 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

Between the Tevatron and LHC, top-quark physics is now becoming an area for precision physics. This has lead to an increase in theoretical activity to match the experimental accuracy of top anti-top production. We discuss the difficulty in properly defining the top-quark mass as measured by experiments and present results for differential distributions of top-quark pair production in a running mass scheme. The use of such a scheme shows better convergence in the perturbative expansion and improves the scale dependence as opposed to the typical on-shell scheme.

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@article{arxiv.1311.0643,
  title  = {Top-quark Pair Production in a Running Mass Scheme},
  author = {Matthew Dowling and Sven Moch},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1311.0643},
  year   = {2013}
}

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10 pages, 4 figures, Proceedings for The European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics-EPS-HEP2013

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