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JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
卷 -, 期 7, 页码 -出版社
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DOI: 10.1007/JHEP07(2021)040
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QCD Phenomenology
Top-quark pair production is crucial to LHC physics, with different event topologies characterized by a range of variables. In addition to the back-to-back topology, some events involve gluon splitting to t (t) over bar pairs. Additional features of events with large t (t) over bar invariant mass have significant experimental and theoretical implications.
Top-quark pair production is central to many facets of LHC physics. At leading order, the top and anti-top are produced in a back-to-back topology, however this topology accounts only for a minority of the events with TeV-scale momentum transfer that contain a t (t) over bar pair. The remaining events instead involve the splitting of an initial or final-state gluon to t (t) over bar. We provide simple quantitative arguments that explain why this is the case, and examine the interplay between different topologies and a range of variables that characterise the event hardness. We then develop a method to classify the topologies of individual events and use it to illustrate our findings in the context of simulated events, using both top partons and suitably defined fiducial tops. For events with large t (t) over bar invariant mass, we comment on additional features that have important experimental and theoretical implications.
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