2014/11/30 by Nikolaos Kidonakis · 56 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Gluon #Hadron #High-Energy Particle Collisions Research #Large Hadron Collider #Nuclear physics #Particle physics #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Physics #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Quantum chromodynamics #Quark #Rapidity #Resummation #Tevatron #hep-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevd.91.031501
published in Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields 91(3) (American Physical Society) · 10 pages, 8 figures; additional curves in the figures; published version
arxiv created 2015/02/18 · openalex publication_date 2015/02/18 · arxiv updated 2015/03/04 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/06
We present a calculation of next-to-next-to-next-to-leading-order (NNNLO) soft-gluon corrections for differential distributions in top-antitop pair production in hadronic collisions. Approximate NNNLO (aNNNLO) results are obtained from soft-gluon resummation. Theoretical predictions are shown for the top-quark aNNNLO transverse momentum (pT) and rapidity distributions at LHC and Tevatron energies. The aNNNLO corrections enhance previous results for the distributions but have smaller theoretical uncertainties.