Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
1999-04-27
Phys.Rev. D60 (1999) 114027
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
53 pages, latex; minor changes, a number of typos corrected
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.60.114027
The complete NNLO QCD corrections to the total cross section $\sigma(e^+e^- \to Z*,\gamma*\to t\bar t)$ in the kinematic region close to the top-antitop threshold are calculated by solving the corresponding Schroedinger equations exactly in momentum space in a consistent momentum cutoff regularization scheme. The corrections coming from the same NNLO QCD effects to the top quark three-momentum distribution $d\sigma/d |\vec k_t|$ are determined. We discuss the origin of the large NNLO corrections to the peak position and the normalization of the total cross section observed in previous works and propose a new top mass definition, the 1S mass M_1S, which stabilizes the peak in the total cross section. If the influence of beamstrahlung and initial state radiation on the mass determination is small, a theoretical uncertainty on the 1S top mass measurement of 200 MeV from the total cross section at the linear collider seems possible. We discuss how well the 1S mass can be related to the $\bar{MS}$ mass. We propose a consistent way to implement the top quark width at NNLO by including electroweak effects into the NRQCD matching coefficients, which then can become complex.
Hoang Andre H.
Teubner Thomas
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