期刊
JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
卷 -, 期 5, 页码 -出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP05(2018)149
关键词
QCD Phenomenology
资金
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [11575004, 11635001]
- STFC Postgraduate Studentship
- ERC grant [ERC-STG-2015-677323]
- BMBF
- UK STFC grants [ST/L002760/1, ST/K004883/1]
- European Research Council Consolidator Grant [NNLOforLHC2]
- National Science Foundation [PHY-1417354]
- STFC [ST/L002760/1, ST/P001246/1, ST/K004883/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Physics [1417354] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
We construct predictions for top quark pair differential distributions at hadron colliders that combine state-of-the-art NNLO QCD calculations with double resummation at NNLL' accuracy of threshold logarithms arising from soft gluon emissions and of small mass logarithms. This is the first time a resummed calculation at full NNLO+NNLL' accuracy in QCD for a process with non-trivial color structure has been completed at the differential level. Of main interest to us is the stability of the M-t ($) over bar and top-quark p(T) distributions in the boosted regime where fixed order calculations may become strongly dependent on the choice of dynamic scales. With the help of numeric and analytic arguments we con firm that the choice for the factorization and renormalization scales advocated recently by some of the authors is indeed optimal. We further derive a set of optimized kinematics-dependent scales for the matching functions which appear in the resummed calculations. Our NNLO+NNLL' prediction for the top-pair invariant mass is significantly less sensitive to the choice of factorization scale than the fixed order prediction, even at NNLO. Notably, the resummed and fixed order calculations are in nearly perfect agreement with each other in the full M-t (t) over bar range when the optimal dynamic scale is used. For the top-quark p(T) distribution the resummation performed here has less of an impact and instead we find that upgrading the matching with fixed-order from NLO+NNLL' to NNLO+NNLL' to be an important effect, a point to be kept in mind when using NLO-based Monte Carlo event generators to calculate this distribution.
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