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We study theoretical uncertainties in predicting top-quark pair-production near threshold at the LHC using the non-relativistic QCD framework. We include variations in the top-quark mass and width, the strong coupling $\alpha_s$,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-13 Maria Vittoria Garzelli , Giovanni Limatola , Sven-Olaf Moch , Matthias Steinhauser , Oleksandr Zenaiev

Measurements of the production cross section for top quark pairs and the single top quark by the ATLAS and CMS collaborations at the LHC are presented. Improved measurements at sqrt(s)=7 TeV as well as new measurements at sqrt(s)=8 TeV are…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-15 Masato Aoki

We evaluate the fermionic two-loop QCD corrections to the heavy-quark pair production process in the quark-antiquark channel. We obtain analytic results which are valid for any value of the Mandelstam invariants s and t, and of the heavy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Bonciani , A. Ferroglia , T. Gehrmann , D. Maitre , C. Studerus

We report on the next-to-leading order(NLO) QCD computation of top-quark pair production in association with a photon at the Fermilab Tevatron RUN II and CERN Large Hadron Collider(LHC). We describe the impact of the complete NLO QCD…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-07-18 Duan Peng-Fei , Ma Wen-Gan , Zhang Ren-You , Han Liang , Guo Lei , Wang Shao-Ming

The current theoretical predictions for the observables related to the top-quark pair and the single-top productions at hadron colliders are briefly reviewed. The theoretical predictions are compared to the experimental measurements carried…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-01-23 R. Bonciani , A. Ferroglia

This work studies the associated production of a top-quark pair with a $W$, $Z$, or Higgs boson at the LHC. Predictions for the total cross sections as well as for several differential distributions of the massive particles in the final…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-04 Alessandro Broggio , Andrea Ferroglia , Rikkert Frederix , Davide Pagani , Benjamin D. Pecjak , Ioannis Tsinikos

We compute the total cross-section and invariant mass distribution for heavy-quark pair production in $e^+e^-$ annihilation at the next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order in QCD. The obtained results are expressed as piecewise functions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-03-12 Xiang Chen , Xin Guan , Chuan-Qi He , Xiao Liu , Yan-Qing Ma

We make use of recent results in effective theory and higher-order perturbative calculations to improve the theoretical predictions of the QCD contribution to the top-quark pair production forward-backward asymmetry at the Tevatron. In…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-29 Valentin Ahrens , Andrea Ferroglia , Matthias Neubert , Ben D. Pecjak , Li Lin Yang

We have determined the QCD corrections to the production of squark-antisquark pairs in $p\bar p$ collisions at the Tevatron. If the next-to-leading order corrections are taken into account, the renormalization/factorization scale dependence…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 W. Beenakker , R. Höpker , M. Spira , P. M. Zerwas

We report on the calculation of the next-to-leading order QCD corrections to the production of ttbar pairs in association with two hard jets at the Fermilab TeVatron and CERN Large Hadron Collider. Results for the integrated and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-19 G. Bevilacqua , M. Czakon , C. G. Papadopoulos , M. Worek

We describe predictions for top-quark pair differential distributions at hadron colliders, which combine state-of-the-art NNLO QCD calculations and NLO electroweak corrections together with double resummation at NNLL$'$ accuracy of…

We calculate all main top-quark pair differential distributions at the Tevatron. For the first time Tevatron predictions for this process include all Standard Model corrections through NLO (referred to as complete-NLO) consistently combined…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-12-14 Michał Czakon , David Heymes , Alexander Mitov , Davide Pagani , Ioannis Tsinikos , Marco Zaro

We discuss various aspects of inclusive top-quark pair production based on TOPIXS, a new, flexible program that computes the production cross section at the Tevatron and LHC at next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy in soft and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-08-09 M. Beneke , P. Falgari , S. Klein , J. Piclum , C. Schwinn , M. Ubiali , F. Yan

Weak corrections for top-quark pair production at hadron colliders are revisited. Predictions for collider energies of 8 TeV, adopted to the recent LHC run, and for 13 as well as 14 TeV, presumably relevant for the next round of LHC…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-02-27 J. H. Kühn , A. Scharf , P. Uwer

I present a brief theoretical update on top quark pair production at the Tevatron and give values of the NNLO-NNNLL cross section for both m_t=175 and 178 GeV. I then present a calculation of the cross section for charged Higgs production…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-21 Nikolaos Kidonakis

We consider top-quark pair production at the LHC within the MSbar scheme for the renormalisation of the top-quark mass, and we present predictions for total and differential cross sections at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in QCD. Our…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-26 Stefano Catani , Simone Devoto , Massimiliano Grazzini , Stefan Kallweit , Javier Mazzitelli

We study the effect of the resummation of logarithms for t\bar{t} production near threshold and inclusive electromagnetic decays of heavy quarkonium. This analysis is complete at next-to-next-to-leading order and includes the full…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Antonio Pineda , Adrian Signer

We present the cross section for pair production of scalar leptoquarks $LQ$ in $p\bar{p}$ collisions, $p+\bar{p} \to LQ + \bar{LQ} + X$, at the Fermilab Tevatron in next-to-leading order QCD. Including the higher-order corrections…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 M. Krämer , T. Plehn , M. Spira , P. M. Zerwas

I present the latest results on the theoretical cross section for top-antitop pair production as well as for single top production at the Tevatron and the LHC. The calculations include higher-order soft-gluon corrections which are dominant…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-02 Nikolaos Kidonakis

We numerically compute the two-loop QCD corrections to $Z\gamma$ production at the LHC mediated by light- and heavy-quark box loops. The calculation employs the pipeline of refs. arXiv:2407.18051 and arXiv:2510.18801, which performs Monte…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-04 Dario Kermanschah , Matilde Vicini