Complete off-shell effects in top quark pair hadroproduction with leptonic decay at next-to-leading order

Results for next-to-leading order QCD corrections to the processes with complete off-shell effects are presented for the first time. Double-, single-and non-resonant top contributions of the order are consistently taken into account, which requires the introduction of a complex-mass scheme for unsta...

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Published in:The journal of high energy physics 2011-02, Vol.2011 (2), Article 83
Main Authors: Bevilacqua, Giuseppe, Czakon, Michał, van Hameren, Andreas, Papadopoulos, Costas G., Worek, Małgorzata
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Asymmetry
Bosons
Classical and Quantum Gravitation
Dependence
Elementary Particles
High energy physics
Physics
Physics and Astronomy
Quantum Field Theories
Quantum Field Theory
Quantum Physics
Quarks
Relativity Theory
String Theory
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Summary:Results for next-to-leading order QCD corrections to the processes with complete off-shell effects are presented for the first time. Double-, single-and non-resonant top contributions of the order are consistently taken into account, which requires the introduction of a complex-mass scheme for unstable top quarks. Moreover, the intermediate W bosons are treated off-shell. Comparison to the narrow width approximation for top quarks, where non-factorizable corrections are not accounted for is performed. Besides the total cross section and its scale dependence, several differential distributions at the TeVatron run II and the LHC are given. In case of the TeVatron the forward-backward asymmetry of the top is recalculated afresh. With inclusive selection cuts, the forward-backward asymmetry amounts to . Furthermore, the corrections with respect to leading order are positive and of the order 2.3% for the TeVatron and 47% for the LHC. A study of the scale dependence of our NLO predictions indicates that the residual theoretical uncertainty due to higher order corrections is 8% for the TeVatron and 9% for the LHC.
ISSN:1029-8479
1029-8479
DOI:10.1007/JHEP02(2011)083