QCD resummation and heavy quark cross sections

of the Dissertation QCD resummation and heavy quark cross sections by Nikolaos Kidonakis Doctor of Philosophy in Physics State University of New York at Stony Brook 1996 In this dissertation a detailed analysis of heavy quark production is given with an emphasis on the resummation of soft gluon corrections. First we calculate the production cross sections for top quark production at the Fermilab Tevatron and for bottom quark production at fixed-target pp experiments, and in particular HERA-B. We consider both the order α s cross sections and the resummation of soft gluon corrections in all orders of QCD perturbation theory. Then we calculate the inclusive transverse momentum and rapidity distributions for top quark production at the Fermilab