We present new results for QCD corrections to the top-pair invariant mass and top-quark pT distributions in boosted top-quark pair production at hadron colliders. They are derived from a formalism which allows the joint resummation of soft and small-mass logarithms at NNLL′ order, thus taking into account all potentially large corrections in the boosted regime, where the partonic center-of-mass energy is parameterically much larger than the mass of the top quark. We match these results with those from standard soft-gluon resummation away from the small-mass limit to NNLL order and also with NLO fixed-order calculations, so that our results are valid in the maximum possible range of phase space. The resummation effects on the pT and top-pair invariant mass distributions are significant, bringing theory predictions into better agreement with experimental data compared to pure NLO calculations.
@article{arxiv.1512.02535,
title = {QCD resummations for boosted top production},
author = {Andrea Ferroglia and Benjamin D. Pecjak and Darren J. Scott and Li Lin Yang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.02535},
year = {2015}
}
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7 pages, 1 figure, Talk given at TOP 2015, 8th International Workshop on Top Quark Physics, 14-18 September 2015, Ischia, Italy