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This review gives an overview of most recent measurements of top quark production cross sections including differential cross sections and searches for new physics in the top quark sector. Datasets corresponding to an integrated luminosity…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Christian Schwanenberger

We consider Higgs boson pair production via gluon fusion in hadronic collisions. We report the calculation of the transverse-momentum ($q_T$) distribution of the Higgs boson pair with top-quark mass ($M_t$) effects fully taken into account.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-03-09 Giancarlo Ferrera , Joao Pires

Single top quark production via the electroweak interaction was observed by the D0 and CDF collaborations at the Tevatron proton-antiproton collider at Fermilab. Multivariate analysis techniques are employed to extract the small single top…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2010-09-29 Reinhard Schwienhorst

A measurement is presented of differential cross sections for $t$-channel single top quark and antiquark production in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy of 13 TeV by the CMS experiment at the LHC. From a data set…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-05-08 CMS Collaboration

In this paper we present several measurements of single top quark production from the CDF and D0 experiments at the Tevatron. The various analyses utilize integrated luminosity ranging from 2.1 to 4.8 fb -1. The results include the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-03-17 Breese Quinn

The electroweak production of single-top quarks in the $t$ channel can be changed by any deviation from the standard model, it is therefore an excellent opportunity to search for new physics. In this poster the recent cross-section…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2016-11-28 Nils Faltermann

I present the resummation of collinear and soft gluon corrections to single top quark production in the t channel at next-to-next-to-leading logarithm (NNLL) accuracy using two-loop soft anomalous dimensions. The expansion of the resummed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-05-25 Nikolaos Kidonakis

We investigate top quark pair production near the threshold where the pair invariant mass $M_{t\bar{t}}$ approaches $2m_t$, which provides sensitive observables to extract the top quark mass $m_t$. Using the effective field theory methods,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-21 Wan-Li Ju , Guoxing Wang , Xing Wang , Xiaofeng Xu , Yongqi Xu , Li Lin Yang

I present calculations of higher-order corrections to top-quark production via three different processes: the production of a top-antitop pair and a $Z$ boson; single-top quark production in the $s$-channel; and top-antitop production with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-17 Nikolaos Kidonakis

I present results from recent high-order calculations for the production of electroweak bosons and top quarks. In particular, I discuss $W$ and $Z$ boson production at large transverse momentum, single-top production, and FCNC top…

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

Measurements of the inclusive and differential cross section for the production of top quark pairs in proton-(anti)proton collision at center-of-mass energies of 1.96, 7.0 and 8.0 TeV are presented and compared with the latest theory…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-06-15 Frank-Peter Schilling

I discuss top quark production in hadronic collisions. I present the soft-gluon resummation formalism and its derivation from factorization and renormalization-group evolution, and two-loop calculations of soft anomalous dimensions in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-11-05 Nikolaos Kidonakis

We uncover a contribution to the NLO/NLL threshold resummed total cross section for top quark pair production at hadron colliders, which has not been taken into account in earlier literature. We derive this contribution - the difference…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-02 M. Czakon , A. Mitov

The scalar partners of top and bottom quarks are expected to be the lightest squarks in supersymmetric theories, with potentially large cross sections at hadron colliders. We present predictions for the production of top and bottom squarks…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-21 Wim Beenakker , Silja Brensing , Michael Krämer , Anna Kulesza , Eric Laenen , Irene Niessen

Differential cross sections in the top quark sector measured at the Fermilab Tevatron collider are presented. CDF used 2.7 fb$^{-1}$ of data and measured the differential cross section as a function of the invariant mass of the $t\bar{t}$…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-03-02 Andreas W. Jung

I review the latest results on properties of the top quark from the Tevatron and the LHC, including results measured in $t\bar{t}$ and single-top events on the mass, width, couplings, and spin correlations.

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2012-12-04 Tony M. Liss

The most precise theoretical predictions for the total cross section for the associated production of a Higgs boson with a top-antitop quark pair at the LHC, first presented in \cite{Balsach:2025tth}, are reported. The calculation combines…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-16 Anna Kulesza

Differential production cross-sections of single top quarks and top antiquarks are measured in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy $\sqrt{s} = $13 TeV. The full Run-2 dataset collected by the ATLAS detector at the LHC in the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-12-10 Maren Stratmann

We present a fully-differential and high-precision calculation of top-quark pair-production and decay at the LHC, providing predictions for observables constructed from top-quark leptonic and $b$-flavoured jet final states. The calculation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-09-20 Jun Gao , Andrew S. Papanastasiou

In ongoing and upcoming hadron collider experiments, top quark physics will play an important role in testing the Standard Model and its possible extensions. In this work we present analytic results for the differential cross sections of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-05-05 W. Bernreuther , A. Brandenburg , Z. G. Si , P. Uwer