2013

Weak Interactions in Top-Quark Pair Production at Hadron Colliders: An Update

Kühn, J. H., Scharf, A., Uwer, P.

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Weak corrections for top-quark pair production at hadron colliders are revisited.

  • Predictions for collider energies of 8 TeV, adopted to the recent LHC run, and for 13 as well as 14 TeV, presumably relevant for the next round of LHC experiments, are presented.
  • Kinematic regions with large momentum transfer are identified, where the corrections become large and may lead to strong distortions of differential distributions, thus mimicking anomalous top quark couplings.
  • As a complementary case we investigate the threshold region, corresponding to configurations with small relative velocity between top and antitop quark, which is particularly sensitive to the top-quark Yukawa coupling.

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