Physics – High Energy Physics – High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Scientific paper
2006-10-25
Phys.Rev.D74:113005,2006
Physics
High Energy Physics
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Latex, 27 figures, 4 tables. 1 figure and 3 references added, scale of 4 figures changed, version to appear in Phys. Rev. D
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevD.74.113005
In this paper we determine the weak-interaction corrections of order $\alpha_s^2\alpha$ to hadronic top-quark pair production. First we compute the one-loop weak corrections to $t \bar t$ production due to gluon fusion and the order $\alpha_s^2\alpha$ corrections to $t \bar t$ production due to (anti)quark gluon scattering in the Standard Model. With our previous result this yields the complete corrections of order $\alpha_s^2\alpha$ to $gg$, $q \bar q$, $q g$, and ${\bar q} g$ induced hadronic $t \bar t$ production with $t$ and $\bar t$ polarizations and spin-correlations fully taken into account. For the Tevatron and the LHC we determine the weak contributions to the transverse top-momentum and to the $t \bar t$ invariant mass distributions. At the LHC these corrections can be of the order of 10 percent compared with the leading-order results, for large $p_T$ and $\mtt$, respectively. Apart from parity-even $t \bar t$ spin correlations we analyze also parity-violating double and single spin asymmetries, and show how they are related if CP invariance holds. For $t$ (and $\bar t$) quarks which decay semileptonically, we compute a resulting charged-lepton forward-backward asymmetry $A_{PV}$ with respect to the $t$ ($\bar t$) direction, which is of the order of one percent at the LHC for suitable invariant-mass cuts.
Bernreuther Werner
Fuecker Michael
Si Zong-Guo
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