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We compute the QCD corrections to the production of a top quark pair in association with one hard jet at the Tevatron and the LHC, using the method of generalized D-dimensional unitarity. Top quark decays are included at leading order in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Kirill Melnikov , Markus Schulze

We review theoretical calculations for top-quark production that include complete next-to-leading-order QCD corrections as well as higher-order soft-gluon corrections from threshold resummation. We discuss in detail the differences between…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-30 Nikolaos Kidonakis , Ben D. Pecjak

I present results for the top quark pair total cross section and the top quark transverse momentum distribution at Tevatron and LHC energies. I also present results for single top quark production. All calculations include NNLO corrections…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-05-19 Nikolaos Kidonakis

We provide the most up-to-date predictions for the top-quark charge asymmetry A_C at the LHC with a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV. Our result is accurate at the NNLO level in the strong interactions and at the complete-NLO level in both…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-11 Michal Czakon , David Heymes , Alexander Mitov , Davide Pagani , Ioannis Tsinikos , Marco Zaro

I present approximate next-to-next-to-leading-order (aNNLO) total and differential cross sections for charged Higgs production in association with a top quark at LHC energies. The aNNLO results for the process $bg \rightarrow tH^-$ are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-07-13 Nikolaos Kidonakis

I present NNLO approximate calculations, based on NNLL resummation, for top quark differential transverse momentum and rapidity distributions. In particular recent results are presented for top-pair production and single-top production…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-10-02 Nikolaos Kidonakis

We present the calculations of the complete next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD corrections to the total cross section, invariant mass distribution and the forward-backward asymmetry ($\rm A_{FB}$) of top quark pair production mediated by $W'$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 Kai Yan , Jian Wang , Ding Yu Shao , Chong Sheng Li

We compute the Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order (NNLO) QCD corrections to the partonic reaction that dominates top-pair production at the Tevatron. This is the first ever NNLO calculation of an observable with more than two colored partons,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 Peter Baernreuther , Michal Czakon , Alexander Mitov

A large forward-backward asymmetry is seen in both the top quark rapidity distribution $A_{FB}^t$ and in the rapidity distribution of charged leptons $A_{FB}^\ell$ from top quarks produced at the Tevatron. We study the kinematic and dynamic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-02-15 Edmond L. Berger , Qing-Hong Cao , Chuan-Ren Chen , Jiang-Hao Yu , Hao Zhang

We present updated predictions for the total production cross section of top-quark pairs at the Tevatron and at the LHC, and, at the LHC, of heavy-quark pairs with mass in the range 0.5-2 TeV. For t\bar{t} production at the LHC we also…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-05-08 Matteo Cacciari , Stefano Frixione , Michelangelo L. Mangano , Paolo Nason , Giovanni Ridolfi

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

I present recent NNLO-NNLL results for top quark hadroproduction at the Tevatron. The total cross section as well as transverse momentum and rapidity distributions are shown.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Nikolaos Kidonakis

We study the factorization and resummation of t-channel top quark transverse momentum distribution at large pT in the SM at both the Tevatron and the LHC with soft-collinear effective theory. The cross section in the threshold region can be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-02-21 Jian Wang , Chong Sheng Li , Hua Xing Zhu

We present an update of the theoretical predictions for the cross section of top-quark pair production at Tevatron and LHC. In particular we employ improvements due to soft gluon resummation at next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Sven Moch , Peter Uwer

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…

I discuss single top quark production at the Tevatron and the LHC. The cross section, including soft-gluon threshold corrections through NNNLO, is presented for each partonic channel. The higher-order corrections provide significant…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Nikolaos Kidonakis

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

We present the theoretical predictions including the complete next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD corrections to the top-quark pair production in association with a photon at the LHC with center-of-mass system energy of $7 {\rm TeV}$. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-30 Duan Peng-Fei , Zhang Ren-You , Ma Wen-Gan , Han Liang , Guo Lei , Wang Shao-Ming

We extend our framework for the simultaneous resummation of soft and small-mass logarithms to rapidity distributions in top quark pair production. We give numerical results for the rapidity distribution of the top quark or the anti-top…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-03-27 Benjamin D. Pecjak , Darren J. Scott , Xing Wang , Li Lin Yang

An overview of the theoretical status of the top quark and single-jet inclusive production cross sections at the Tevatron is presented. NLO results as well as NNLO-NNLL and higher order threshold expressions derived from resummation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Nikolaos Kidonakis