We calculate the gg→γγ amplitude by including the ttˉ bound-state effects near their mass threshold. In terms of the non-relativistic expansion of the amplitude, the LO contribution is an energy-independent term in the one-loop amplitude. We include the NLO contribution described by the non-relativistic Green function and part of the NNLO contribution. Despite a missing NLO piece which can be accomplished with the two-loop-level amplitude via massive quarks, the shape of the diphoton mass spectrum is predicted with a good accuracy. Thanks to the simple and clean nature of the observable, its experimental measurement can be a direct method to determine the short-distance mass of the top quark at hadron colliders.
@article{arxiv.1607.00990,
title = {Precise top-quark mass from the diphoton mass spectrum},
author = {Sayaka Kawabata and Hiroshi Yokoya},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.00990},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
15 pages, 6 figures; discussions and references revised; published version