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Top Pair Production at Hadron Colliders PDF
Top Pair Production at Hadron Colliders PDF
Top Pair Production at Hadron Colliders PDF
AlexanderMitov
YangInstituteforTheoreticalPhysics SUNYStonyBrook
Toppairproduction
AlexanderMitov
Fermilab,21Jan2009
PrecisionintheLHCera
Precision=confidence!
vLO(leadingorder)=crudeestimateoftheresult
ThreeprecisionobservableshavebeenidentifiedfortheLHC:
Thethreepillars
Toppairproduction
AlexanderMitov
Fermilab,21Jan2009
PrecisionintheLHCera:DrellYan
DYisaSMprocess!
Toppairproduction
AlexanderMitov
Fermilab,21Jan2009
Blastfromthepast:LEP
GehrmannDeRidderetal.07
Toppairproduction
AlexanderMitov
Fermilab,21Jan2009
PrecisionintheLHCera:Higgs
Higgsproduction.Itsdiscoveryisnosimplematter!
CMS08
ATLPHYSCONF2008006
Hgg
1 integratedluminosity for1fb
Signalx10
Toppairproduction
AlexanderMitov
Fermilab,21Jan2009
PrecisionintheLHCera:Topquark
Topiscentralforjustabouteverything: vWewanttostudyitdirectly(SM) butalso vVeryimportantforreducinguncertaintiesinotherobservables constraingluonPDFatlargerx, reduceuncertaintiesinanticorrelatedobservables: Examples:singetopandheavyHiggs vImportantforHiggs
+ ), vdirectbackground(inH W W
CTEQ08
vconceptuallylargeYukawacoupling!
Continues
Toppairproduction
AlexanderMitov
Fermilab,21Jan2009
PrecisionintheLHCera:Topquark
vCentralcollidersignatureforBSMphysics: v isapreferreddecaymodeofTeVKKparticles
Continues
Toppairproduction
AlexanderMitov
Fermilab,21Jan2009
PrecisionintheLHCera:Topquark
Placeswherethetopmassiscrucial:Higgsmass Higgsinflation CDF+D008
PrecisionElectroweakMeasurementsandConstraintsontheStandardModel arXiv:0811.4682v1[hepex]
Toppairproduction
AlexanderMitov
Fermilab,21Jan2009
PrecisionintheLHCera:Topquark
vTopisthemostchallengingcollidersignal: v2to2reaction(unlikeDrellYanandHiggs), vinvolvesfourcoloredparticles:colorcorrelations vmassive:itsmasscannotbeapproximatedasverysmallor verylarge vTheabovehaveledtomanytheoreticaldevelopments vpredictionofmassiveamplitudesathighenergy, vexponentiation,resummationandsingularitiesofmassiveamplitudes. vTheseresultscanbeappliedtomanymoreplaces (jets,ttHiggs,masslessamplitudesathigherorders,N=4SYMetc.)
Toppairproduction
AlexanderMitov
Fermilab,21Jan2009
PrecisionintheLHCera:Topquark
Anincredible,reallifeexamplefor
whyprecisionanddetailedunderstandingareveryimportant
Thehistoryofthetoppaircrosssectioncalculation: vCalculatedatNLO~20yearsago(numericapprox.) vNLLresummationwasdone~10yearsago J Itseemed: topwasadonedeal
Toppairproduction
AlexanderMitov
Fermilab,21Jan2009
PrecisionintheLHCera:Topquark
Thepreviousresultswerebasedonnumericalfits(highquality1%)
Nason,Dawson,Ellis88 Beenakkeretal89
Onlynowtheexactresultcouldbecalculated(2monthsago)
M.Czakon,AM08
FirstexactresultbeyondLOina2to2reactionwithmasses
Comparethenewanalyticresultwiththeearliernumericalones.
2 s): Ofspecialinterestisthethresholdexpansion b 0(i.e.4m
Itispossibletopredict(throughresummation)theLL,NLL,behaviorofthecross sectionclosetothreshold.Helpfulinestablishingthetheoreticaluncertainties.
Toppairproduction
AlexanderMitov
Fermilab,21Jan2009
PrecisionintheLHCera:Topquark
ExtractionoftheconstantC 3 inthethresholdlimit:
Itissoimportant, thereisanestablished notationforitJ
Czakon,AM08
Nason,Dawson,Ellis89
Toppairproduction
AlexanderMitov
Fermilab,21Jan2009
PrecisionintheLHCera:Topquark
Fromresummation, thefollowing2loop logscanbepredicted:
MochUwer08
2 Itturnsoutthecoefficientofln (b)isoftheform:
where:
AsextractedfromNDE89andusedinALLresummationliterature
Theexactvaluejustrecentlyderived Czakon,AM08
Note:thereasonis purenumerics!
Toppairproduction
AlexanderMitov
Fermilab,21Jan2009
PrecisionintheLHCera:Topquark
Thechangesdiscussedsofararepurelyduetonumerics. However:thereisanothermodificationcomparedtoearlierliterature ExponentiationinMellinspace:
Toppairproduction
AlexanderMitov
Fermilab,21Jan2009
Conclusions
vGreattimetoworkinhighenergyphysics! vLHCwillrevolutionizeourknowledgeoftheworld vDiscovertheHiggs,oritsrelativesJ vDiscoverNewPhysics:SUSY,extradimensions vImproveunderstandingaboutdarkmatterandearlyUniverse. vSuccessfulLHCprogramrequiresprecision tobeconfidentinwhatwemeasureandhowweinterpretit. vThechallengesaheadaregreat,andwearemoremotivatedthanever!
Staytuned!
Toppairproduction
AlexanderMitov
Fermilab,21Jan2009
Whatoneneedstoknowabouttopproduction?
vUnderstandingtruescaleuncertaintyrequiresfullNNLOcalculation! vTheappropriateobservableisthetotalinclusivecrosssection. vSomeNNLOtermscanbeobtainedbytruncatingallorderresummation. isthisasystematicapproximation? Ingeneral,thisisapoorapproximationtofixedordercalculations: PhotonspectruminBs+g:
hepph/0505097 2 (nonBLM) z1approximationat as
TopXsection:NLOcorrection
arXiv:0811.4119 Masslessexpansion(6powers) Exactresult
2 (nonBLM) Exact as
Thresholdexpansion(6powers)
Toppairproduction
AlexanderMitov
Fermilab,21Jan2009
BacktoPhenomenology
Whatourresultsactuallyimply? Conclusion#1: theearlierFONLOcalculationsareofhighquality
However:inthelast10yearsorso,allimprovementshavebeendoneby softgluonresummation(sincenonewFOresults)
Conclusion#2: theresummationresultsarealteredbyourwork
Toppairproduction
AlexanderMitov
Fermilab,21Jan2009