Threshold expansion of the g g (q over(q, -)) → over(QQ, -) + X cross section at O (αs 4)

Martin Beneke, Michal Czakon, Pietro Falgari, Alexander Mitov, Christian Schwinn

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Abstract

We derive the complete set of velocity-enhanced terms in the expansion of the total cross section for heavy-quark pair production in hadronic collisions at next-to-next-to-leading order. Our expression takes into account the effects of soft-gluon emission as well as that of potential-gluon exchanges. We prove that there are no enhancements due to subleading soft-gluon couplings multiplying the leading Coulomb singularity.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)483-490
Number of pages8
JournalPhysics Letters B
Volume690
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - 5 Jul 2010
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • NNLO
  • Threshold expansion
  • Top quark
  • Total inclusive cross section

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