Inclusive Heavy Flavor Hadroproduction in NLO QCD: the Exact Analytic Result

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25 November 2008

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Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.0811.4119

Abstract

We present the first exact analytic result for all partonic channels contributing to the total cross section for the production of a pair of heavy flavors in hadronic collisions in NLO QCD. Our calculation is an essential step in the derivation of the top quark pair production cross section at NNLO in QCD, which is a cornerstone of the precision LHC program. Our results uncover the analytical structures behind observables with heavy flavors at higher orders. They also reveal surprising and non-trivial implications for kinematics close to partonic threshold.

Keywords

FLAVOR HADROPRODUCTION
EXACT ANALYTIC RESULT
HADROPRODUCTION
HEAVY FLAVORS
PARTONIC
NLO QCD
QCD

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Version 1, 2008-11-25, ArXiv
Published version: Nuclear Physics B, 824 (1-2), 111.

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