Single-top and top-antitop cross sections

Differential Cross Sections for Top-pair and Single-top Production

Top Quark Cross Sections

The top quark is the latest quark of the Standard Model (SM) that was discovered, discovery that was made in 1995 by the CDF and D0 collaborations [1]. It is the “youngest” quark of the SM and many of its properties remain to be studied in detail. Since it is also the heaviest elementary particle known so far, its status in the SM is special. Indeed, the top quark is 40 times heavier than its w...

Differential and Total Cross Sections for Top Pair and Single Top Production

Higher-order Corrections to Top-antitop Pair and Single Top Quark Production

The top quark plays an important role in the Standard Model of particle physics as the most massive elementary particle, relevant to electroweak physics. The top was discovered via pair production [1, 2] and has also been more recently produced via single top [3, 4] channels at the Tevatron. On the theoretical side, QCD corrections are significant for top quark production and even higherorder c...

Top Quark Cross Sections and Differential Distributions

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 from NNLL threshold resummation. TOP-ANTITOP PAIR PRODUCTION The leading order processes for top-antitop pair production are qq̄ → tt̄ (dominant at the Tevatro...