Location via proxy:   [ UP ]  
[Report a bug]   [Manage cookies]                
Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Inclusive top-pair production phenomenology with TOPIXS

  • Published:
Journal of High Energy Physics Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

We discuss various aspects of inclusive top-quark pair production based on Topixs, a new, flexible program that computes the production cross section at the Tevatron and LHC at next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy in soft and Coulomb resummation, including bound-state effects and the complete next-to-next-to-leading order result in the \( q\overline q \) channel, which has recently become available. We present the calculation of the top-pair cross section in pp collisions at 8 TeV centre-of-mass energy, as well as the cross sections for hypothetical heavy quarks in extensions of the standard model. The dependence on the parton distribution input is studied. Further we investigate the impact of LHC top cross section measurements at \( \sqrt {s} = {7} \) TeV on global fits of the gluon distribution using the NNPDF re-weighting method.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Subscribe and save

Springer+ Basic
$34.99 /Month
  • Get 10 units per month
  • Download Article/Chapter or eBook
  • 1 Unit = 1 Article or 1 Chapter
  • Cancel anytime
Subscribe now

Buy Now

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Similar content being viewed by others

References

  1. M. Beneke, P. Falgari, S. Klein and C. Schwinn, Hadronic top-quark pair production with NNLL threshold resummation, Nucl. Phys. B 855 (2012) 695 [arXiv:1109.1536] [INSPIRE].

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  2. M. Beneke, M. Czakon, P. Falgari, A. Mitov and C. Schwinn, Threshold expansion of the \( gg\left( {q\overline q } \right) \to Q\overline Q + X \) cross section at \( O\left( {\alpha_s^4} \right) \), Phys. Lett. B 690 (2010) 483 [arXiv:0911.5166] [INSPIRE].

    ADS  Google Scholar 

  3. M. Aliev et al., HATHOR: HAdronic Top and Heavy quarks crOss section calculatoR, Comput. Phys. Commun. 182 (2011) 1034 [arXiv:1007.1327] [INSPIRE].

    Article  ADS  MATH  Google Scholar 

  4. M. Cacciari, M. Czakon, M.L. Mangano, A. Mitov and P. Nason, Top-pair production at hadron colliders with next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic soft-gluon resummation, Phys. Lett. B 710 (2012) 612 [arXiv:1111.5869] [INSPIRE].

    ADS  Google Scholar 

  5. M. Czakon and A. Mitov, Top++: a program for the calculation of the top-pair cross-section at hadron colliders, arXiv:1112.5675 [INSPIRE].

  6. V. Ahrens, A. Ferroglia, M. Neubert, B.D. Pecjak and L.L. Yang, Precision predictions for the t + \( \overline t \) production cross section at hadron colliders, Phys. Lett. B 703 (2011) 135 [arXiv:1105.5824] [INSPIRE].

    ADS  Google Scholar 

  7. N. Kidonakis, Next-to-next-to-leading soft-gluon corrections for the top quark cross section and transverse momentum distribution, Phys. Rev. D 82 (2010) 114030 [arXiv:1009.4935] [INSPIRE].

    ADS  Google Scholar 

  8. S.J. Brodsky and X.-G. Wu, Application of the principle of maximum conformality to top-pair production, Phys. Rev. D 86 (2012) 014021 [arXiv:1204.1405] [INSPIRE].

    ADS  Google Scholar 

  9. P. Bärnreuther, M. Czakon and A. Mitov, Percent level precision physics at the Tevatron: first genuine NNLO QCD corrections to \( q\overline q \to t\overline t + X \), arXiv:1204.5201 [INSPIRE].

  10. A. Martin, W. Stirling, R. Thorne and G. Watt, Parton distributions for the LHC, Eur. Phys. J. C 63 (2009) 189 [arXiv:0901.0002] [INSPIRE].

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  11. S. Alekhin, J. Blümlein and S. Moch, Parton distribution functions and benchmark cross sections at NNLO, arXiv:1202.2281 [INSPIRE].

  12. P.M. Nadolsky et al., Implications of CTEQ global analysis for collider observables, Phys. Rev. D 78 (2008) 013004 [arXiv:0802.0007] [INSPIRE].

    ADS  Google Scholar 

  13. G. Watt, Parton distribution function dependence of benchmark standard model total cross sections at the 7 TeV LHC, JHEP 09 (2011) 069 [arXiv:1106.5788] [INSPIRE].

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  14. NNPDF collaboration, R.D. Ball et al., Reweighting NNPDFs: the W lepton asymmetry, Nucl. Phys. B 849 (2011) 112 [Erratum ibid. B 854 (2012) 926-927] [arXiv:1012.0836] [INSPIRE].

  15. R.D. Ball et al., Reweighting and unweighting of parton distributions and the LHC W lepton asymmetry data, Nucl. Phys. B 855 (2012) 608 [arXiv:1108.1758] [INSPIRE].

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  16. M. Beneke, P. Falgari and C. Schwinn, Soft radiation in heavy-particle pair production: all-order colour structure and two-loop anomalous dimension, Nucl. Phys. B 828 (2010) 69 [arXiv:0907.1443] [INSPIRE].

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  17. M. Beneke, P. Falgari and C. Schwinn, Threshold resummation for pair production of coloured heavy (s)particles at hadron colliders, Nucl. Phys. B 842 (2011) 414 [arXiv:1007.5414] [INSPIRE].

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  18. T. Becher and M. Neubert, Threshold resummation in momentum space from effective field theory, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97 (2006) 082001 [hep-ph/0605050] [INSPIRE].

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  19. T. Becher, M. Neubert and G. Xu, Dynamical threshold enhancement and resummation in Drell-Yan production, JHEP 07 (2008) 030 [arXiv:0710.0680] [INSPIRE].

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  20. U. Langenfeld, S. Moch and P. Uwer, Measuring the running top-quark mass, Phys. Rev. D 80 (2009) 054009 [arXiv:0906.5273] [INSPIRE].

    ADS  Google Scholar 

  21. A. Martin, W. Stirling, R. Thorne and G. Watt, Uncertainties on α s in global PDF analyses and implications for predicted hadronic cross sections, Eur. Phys. J. C 64 (2009) 653 [arXiv:0905.3531] [INSPIRE].

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  22. M. Beneke, P. Falgari, S. Klein and C. Schwinn, The top-quark pair production cross section at next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic order, arXiv:1112.4606 [INSPIRE].

  23. D0 collaboration, V.M. Abazov et al., Determination of the pole and MSbar masses of the top quark from the \( t\overline t \) cross section, Phys. Lett. B 703 (2011) 422 [arXiv:1104.2887] [INSPIRE].

    ADS  Google Scholar 

  24. D0 collaboration, V.M. Abazov et al., Measurement of the \( t\overline t \) production cross section using dilepton events in \( p\overline p \) collisions, Phys. Lett. B 704 (2011) 403 [arXiv:1105.5384] [INSPIRE].

    ADS  Google Scholar 

  25. Tevatron Electroweak Working Group, CDF and D0 collaboration, Combination of CDF and D0 results on the mass of the top quark using up to 5.8 fb −1 of data, arXiv:1107.5255 [INSPIRE].

  26. ATLAS collaboration, Measurement of the \( t\overline t \) production cross-section in pp collisions at \( \sqrt {s} = {7} \) TeV using kinematic information of lepton+jets events, ATLAS-CONF-2011-121 (2011).

  27. CMS collaboration, M. Aldaya, K. Lipka and S. Naumann-Emme, Determination of the top quark mass from the \( t\overline t \) cross section measured by CMS at \( \sqrt {s} = {7} \) TeV, EPJ Web Conf. 28 (2012) 12044 [arXiv:1201.5336] [INSPIRE].

  28. M. Beneke, P. Falgari, S. Klein, J. Piclum and C. Schwinn, NNLL threshold resummation for the total top-pair production cross section, arXiv:1205.0988 [INSPIRE].

  29. S. Moch, P. Uwer and A. Vogt, On top-pair hadro-production at next-to-next-to-leading order, Phys. Lett. B 714 (2012) 48 [arXiv:1203.6282] [INSPIRE].

    ADS  Google Scholar 

  30. A. Ferroglia, B.D. Pecjak and L.L. Yang, Soft-gluon resummation for boosted top-quark production at hadron colliders, arXiv:1205.3662 [INSPIRE].

  31. R.D. Ball et al., Impact of heavy quark masses on parton distributions and LHC phenomenology, Nucl. Phys. B 849 (2011) 296 [arXiv:1101.1300] [INSPIRE].

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  32. H.-L. Lai et al., New parton distributions for collider physics, Phys. Rev. D 82 (2010) 074024 [arXiv:1007.2241] [INSPIRE].

    ADS  Google Scholar 

  33. H.-L. Lai et al., Uncertainty induced by QCD coupling in the CTEQ global analysis of parton distributions, Phys. Rev. D 82 (2010) 054021 [arXiv:1004.4624] [INSPIRE].

    ADS  Google Scholar 

  34. N. Arkani-Hamed, A. Cohen, E. Katz and A. Nelson, The littlest Higgs, JHEP 07 (2002) 034 [hep-ph/0206021] [INSPIRE].

    Article  MathSciNet  ADS  Google Scholar 

  35. M. Perelstein, M.E. Peskin and A. Pierce, Top quarks and electroweak symmetry breaking in little Higgs models, Phys. Rev. D 69 (2004) 075002 [hep-ph/0310039] [INSPIRE].

    ADS  Google Scholar 

  36. K. Agashe, R. Contino, L. Da Rold and A. Pomarol, A custodial symmetry for \( Zb\overline b \), Phys. Lett. B 641 (2006) 62 [hep-ph/0605341] [INSPIRE].

    ADS  Google Scholar 

  37. CMS collaboration, S. Chatrchyan et al., Search for heavy bottom-like quarks in 4.9 inverse femtobarns of pp collisions at \( \sqrt {s} = 7 \) TeV, JHEP 05 (2012) 123 [arXiv:1204.1088] [INSPIRE].

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  38. CMS collaboration, S. Chatrchyan et al., Search for heavy, top-like quark pair production in the dilepton final state in pp collisions at \( \sqrt {s} = {7} \) TeV, arXiv:1203.5410 [INSPIRE].

  39. CMS collaboration, S. Chatrchyan et al., Search for a vector-like quark with charge 2/3 in t + Z events from pp collisions at \( \sqrt {s} = {7} \) TeV, Phys. Rev. Lett. 107 (2011) 271802 [arXiv:1109.4985] [INSPIRE].

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  40. P. Jimenez-Delgado and E. Reya, Variable flavor number parton distributions and weak gauge and Higgs boson production at hadron colliders at NNLO of QCD, Phys. Rev. D 80 (2009) 114011 [arXiv:0909.1711] [INSPIRE].

    ADS  Google Scholar 

  41. H1 and ZEUS collaboration, F. Aaron et al., Combined measurement and QCD analysis of the inclusive e ± p scattering cross sections at HERA, JHEP 01 (2010) 109 [arXiv:0911.0884] [INSPIRE].

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  42. G. Watt and R. Thorne, Study of Monte Carlo approach to experimental uncertainty propagation with MSTW 2008 PDFs, arXiv:1205.4024 [INSPIRE].

  43. ATLAS collaboration, G. Aad et al., Measurement of the cross section for top-quark pair production in pp collisions at \( \sqrt {s} = {7} \) TeV with the ATLAS detector using final states with two high-p T leptons, JHEP 05 (2012) 059 [arXiv:1202.4892] [INSPIRE].

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  44. ATLAS collaboration, Measurement of \( t\overline t \) production in the all-hadronic channel in 1.02 fb −1 of pp collisions at \( \sqrt {s} = {7} \) TeV with the ATLAS detector, ATLAS-CONF-2011-140 (2011).

  45. CMS collaboration, Combination of top pair production cross section measurements, PAS-TOP-11-024 (2011).

  46. J.M. Campbell, J. Huston and W. Stirling, Hard interactions of quarks and gluons: a primer for LHC physics, Rept. Prog. Phys. 70 (2007) 89 [hep-ph/0611148] [INSPIRE].

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  47. T. Gehrmann and E. Remiddi, Numerical evaluation of harmonic polylogarithms, Comput. Phys. Commun. 141 (2001) 296 [hep-ph/0107173] [INSPIRE].

    Article  MathSciNet  ADS  MATH  Google Scholar 

  48. R. Piessens, E. de Doncker-Kapenga, C. Überhuber and D. Kahaner, QUADPACK: a subroutine package for automatic integration, Springer Series in Computational Mathematics, Springer, U.S.A. (1983).

  49. M. Whalley, D. Bourilkov and R. Group, The Les Houches accord PDFs (LHAPDF) and LHAGLUE, hep-ph/0508110 [INSPIRE].

  50. M. Galassi et al., GNU scientific library reference manual, 3rd edition, Network Theory Ltd., U.S.A. (2009).

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Physik Department T31, James-Franck-Straße, Technische Universität München, D-85748, Garching, Germany

    M. Beneke & J. Piclum

  2. Institut für Theoretische Teilchenphysik und Kosmologie, RWTH Aachen University, D-52056, Aachen, Germany

    M. Beneke, S. Klein, J. Piclum, M. Ubiali & F. Yan

  3. Institute for Theoretical Physics and Spinoza Institute, Utrecht University, 3508 TD, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    P. Falgari

  4. Albert-Ludwigs Universität Freiburg, Physikalisches Institut, D-79104, Freiburg, Germany

    C. Schwinn

Authors
  1. M. Beneke
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. P. Falgari
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. S. Klein
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. J. Piclum
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  5. C. Schwinn
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  6. M. Ubiali
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  7. F. Yan
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to J. Piclum.

Additional information

ArXiv ePrint: 1206.2454

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Beneke, M., Falgari, P., Klein, S. et al. Inclusive top-pair production phenomenology with TOPIXS . J. High Energ. Phys. 2012, 194 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2012)194

Download citation

  • Received:

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP07(2012)194

Keywords

Search

Navigation