Further exploration of top pair hadroproduction at NNLO
arXiv:1305.3892
Abstract
Top quark pair production is one of the cornerstones of the physics program at hadron colliders. In this contribution, we further explore the phenomenological implications of the recent NNLO calculation of the total inclusive cross-section. We provide a comparison of the scale dependence of the top pair hadroproduction cross section at different perturbative orders and study its perturbative convergence (with and without soft-gluon resummation). We also sketch how the NNLO top quark cross-section could be used to improve searches of physics beyond the Standard Model.
8 pages, 8 figures. Contribution to the proceedings of the twenty-seventh workshop "Les Rencontres de Physique de la Vallée d'Aoste", held 24 Feb.-02 Mar. 2013 in La Thuile, Aosta Valley, Italy