Top pair threshold production at a linear collider with WHIZARD

Abstract

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