Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
1999-03-04
Phys.Lett. B454 (1999) 137-146
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
14 pages, LaTeX, 2 figures included via epsf.sty
Scientific paper
10.1016/S0370-2693(99)00343-3
We consider top-anti-top production near threshold in $e^+ e^-$ collisions, resumming Coulomb-enhanced corrections at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO). We also sum potentially large logarithms of the small top quark velocity at the next-to-leading logarithmic level using the renormalization group. The NNLO correction to the cross section is large, and it leads to a significant modification of the peak position and normalization. We demonstrate that an accurate top quark mass determination is feasible if one abandons the conventional pole mass scheme and if one uses a subtracted potential and the corresponding mass definition. Significant uncertainties in the normalization of the $t\bar{t}$ cross section, however, remain.
Beneke Martin
Signer Adrian
Smirnov Vladimir A.
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