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We perform a comparative study of the reach of future $e^+e^-$ collider options for the scale of non-resonant new physics effects in the top quark sector, phrased in the language of higher-dimensional operators. Our focus is on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-10-26 Christoph Englert , Michael Russell

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 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

One of the important goals at the future $e^+e^-$ colliders is to measure the top-quark mass and width in a scan of the pair production threshold. However, the shape of the pair-production cross section at the threshold depends also on…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2021-07-28 Kacper Nowak , Aleksander Filip Zarnecki

We calculate the electroweak corrections of the order $O({m_t^2\over v^2})$ to the QCD production of $t\bar{t}$ pairs via $q+qbar->t+tbar$ at hadron colliders and show that these corrections to the total production rate are small. This…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-25 C. Kao , G. A. Ladinsky , C. -P. Yuan

A scan of the beam energy across the top quark pair ($\mathrm{t\overline{t}}$) production threshold is part of the program of future Higgs, top, and electroweak factory projects. In this paper, we provide projections for the achievable…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-26 Matteo M. Defranchis , Jorge de Blas , Ankita Mehta , Michele Selvaggi , Marcel Vos

The ratio of the structure functions for deep inelastic scattering in top pair production at future electron-proton colliders is analyzed at a fixed $\sqrt{s}$ and $Q^2$ relative to the minimum value of $x$ given by $Q^2/s$ using collinear…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-24 G. R. Boroun

The most precise top quark mass measurements use kinematic reconstruction methods, determining the top mass parameter of a Monte Carlo event generator, $m_t^{\rm MC}$. Due to hadronization and parton shower dynamics, relating $m_t^{\rm MC}$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-07 Mathias Butenschoen , Bahman Dehnadi , Andre H. Hoang , Vicent Mateu , Moritz Preisser , Iain W. Stewart

The study of top-quark production and decay is central in the LHC physics programme, allowing precise tests of the Standard Model and offering a window on possible new physics. Accurate theoretical predictions for this process are therefore…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-17 Simone Devoto

Considering the possibility to build an $e^+ e^-$ collider at the energies around the $Z^0$-boson resonance with a planned luminosity so high as ${\cal L}\propto 10^{34}\sim 10^{36}cm^{-2}s^{-1}$ (super $Z$-factory), we make a detailed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-05-23 Zhi Yang , Xing-Gang Wu , Gu Chen , Qi-Li Liao , Jia-Wei Zhang

In this letter, we evaluate potential of linear $e^+e^-$ colliders to measure the top quark mass in radiative events and in a suitable short-distance scheme. We present a calculation of the differential cross section for production of a top…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-03-11 Marça Boronat , Esteban Fullana , Juan Fuster , Pablo Gomis , André Hoang , Vicent Mateu , Marcel Vos , Angelika Widl

The results of phenomenological studies of top-quark pair production in proton-proton collisions are presented. Differential cross sections are calculated in perturbative QCD at approximate next-to-next-to-leading order ${\cal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 Marco Guzzi , Katerina Lipka , Sven-Olaf Moch

In the present paper, we first give a detailed study on the pQCD corrections to the leading-twist part of BSR. Previous pQCD corrections to the leading-twist part derived under conventional scale-setting approach up to ${\cal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-04 Qing Yu , Xing-Gang Wu , Hua Zhou , Xu-Dong Huang

We present a fully differential next-to-next-to-leading order calculation of t-channel single top-quark production and decay at the LHC under narrow-width approximation and neglecting cross-talk between incoming protons. We focus on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-01 Edmond L. Berger , Jun Gao , C. -P. Yuan , Hua Xing Zhu

In heavy quarkonium production, the measured ratio $R_{c \bar c}=\sigma[J/\psi+ c\bar c + X]/\sigma[J/\psi +X]$ at B factories is much larger than existing theoretical predictions. To clarify this discrepancy, in nonrelativistic QCD (NRQCD)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-06-19 Yan-Qing Ma , Yu-Jie Zhang , Kuang-Ta Chao

We investigate in detail the effects of the R-parity lepton number violation in the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM) on the top-quark pair production via both $e^--e^+$ and $\gamma-\gamma$ collision modes at the linear…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Wang Lei , Ma Wen-Gan , Hou Hong-Sheng , Zhang Ren-You , Sun Yan-Bin

The production of top-quark pairs in hadronic collisions is among the most important reactions in modern particle physics phenomenology and constitutes an instrumental avenue to study the properties of the heaviest quark observed in nature.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-25 Javier Mazzitelli , Pier Francesco Monni , Paolo Nason , Emanuele Re , Marius Wiesemann , Giulia Zanderighi

A combination of measurements of the inclusive top-quark pair production cross-section performed by ATLAS and CMS in proton-proton collisions at centre-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV at the LHC is presented. The cross-sections are obtained…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-09-06 ATLAS , CMS Collaborations

We consider QCD radiative corrections to top-quark pair production at hadron colliders. We use the $q_T$ subtraction formalism to perform a fully-differential computation for this process. Our calculation is accurate up to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-01-27 Roberto Bonciani , Stefano Catani , Massimiliano Grazzini , Hayk Sargsyan , Alessandro Torre

The production of top quark pairs accompanied by a hard gluon in $e^+e^-$ annihilation is studied including next-to-leading order corrections in the strong coupling. At leading order, the fraction r of $t\bar{t}g$ events with respect to all…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-13 Arnd Brandenburg