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Top pair threshold production at a linear collider with WHIZARD
We briefly describe how the Monte Carlo generator WHIZARD 2.2 can be employed
to study large QCD effects enhancing the top-antitop production threshold at a
next-generation lepton collider. While present state-of-the-art predictions at
NNLL order are confined to inclusive total cross sections, our tool can be used
to simulate differential distributions including NLL threshold resummation in
the production, and with off-shell decaying tops. The new model will be shipped
with WHIZARD from version 2.2.3 onwards, to be released along with this
article.Comment: 4 pages, 1 figure. Proceedings of TOP2014, 7th International Workshop
on Top Quark Physics, Cannes, France, September 29 - October 3 201
The Top-Antitop Threshold at the ILC: NNLL QCD Uncertainties
We discuss the top-antitop production cross section near threshold at a
future linear collider accounting for the NNLL QCD corrections to the anomalous
dimension of the leading S-wave production current computed recently within
renormalization-group-improved NRQCD perturbation theory. We argue that the
still unknown soft NNLL mixing corrections are negligible so that the NNLL QCD
corrections to the total cross section can be considered complete for practical
purposes. Based on combined variations of the renormalization and matching
scales and the overall size of the perturbative corrections we estimate that
the NNLL QCD total cross section has a normalization uncertainty of 5% at
threshold. We present results for the total cross section and also for the
experimentally more relevant case, when moderate cuts are imposed on the
reconstructed top and antitop invariant masses.Comment: 23 pages, 7 figures; v2: plots and appendix added, journal versio
The Fully-Differential Quark Beam Function at NNLO
We present the first calculation of a fully-unintegrated parton distribution
(beam function) at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO). We obtain the
fully-differential beam function for quark-initiated processes by matching it
onto standard parton distribution functions (PDFs) at two loops. The
fully-differential beam function is a universal ingredient in resummed
predictions of observables probing both the virtuality as well as the
transverse momentum of the incoming quark in addition to its usual longitudinal
momentum fraction. For such double-differential observables our result provides
the part of the NNLO singular cross section related to collinear initial-state
radiation (ISR), and is important for the resummation of large logarithms
through N3LL.Comment: 17 pages, 1 figure; v2: journal versio
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