Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2004-03-03
Nucl.Phys.B690:81-137,2004
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
58 pages, 12 figures
Scientific paper
10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2004.04.019
In ongoing and upcoming hadron collider experiments, top quark physics will play an important role in testing the Standard Model and its possible extensions. In this work we present analytic results for the differential cross sections of top quark pair production in hadronic collisions at next-to-leading order in the QCD coupling, keeping the full dependence on the spins of the top quarks. These results are combined with the corresponding next-to-leading order results for the decay of polarized top quarks into dilepton, lepton plus jets, and all jets final states. As an application we predict double differential angular distributions which are due to the QCD-induced top quark spin correlations in the intermediate state. In addition to the analytic results, we give numerical results in terms of fit functions that can easily be used in an experimental analysis.
Bernreuther Werner
Brandenburg Axel
Si Zong-Guo
Uwer Peter
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