P-wave contribution to third-order top-quark pair production near threshold

M. Beneke, J. Piclum, T. Rauh

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Abstract

The next-to-leading order (NLO) P-wave Coulomb Green function contributes at third-order to top-pair production in e +e - collisions near threshold. In this paper we compute the NLO P-wave Green function in dimensional regularization, as required for a consistent combination with non-resonant production of the W+W-bb- final state, and present a phenomenological analysis of the P-wave contribution. We further briefly discuss squark production near threshold and top-pair production in γγ collisions, where no S-wave contribution is present, and the P-wave thus constitutes the dominant production process.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)414-434
Number of pages21
JournalNuclear Physics, Section B
Volume880
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 2014

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