The Top Cross Section in Hadronic Collisions
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چکیده
We reexamine the top quark production cross section at the Tevatron and LHC, in the light of recent progress on the resummation of logarithmic soft gluon corrections. We find that resummation effects are much smaller than previously thought. We also compute Coulombic threshold effects, and find them negligible. We update the discussion of uncertainties due to scale dependence, the value of the strong coupling constant, and the parton density parametrization. Our current best estimate of the top production cross section at the Tevatron and its error is σ(mt = 175GeV) = 4.75 +0.73 −0.62 . CERN-TH/96-21 February 1, 2008 Research supported in part by the EEC programme “Human Capital and Mobility”, Network “Physics at High Energy Colliders”, contract CHRX-CT93-0357(DG 12 COMA). On leave of absence from INFN, Pisa, Italy On leave of absence from INFN, Milan, Italy
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