Heavy-Quark Pair Production at Lepton Colliders at NNNLO in QCD.
Phys Rev Lett
; 132(10): 101901, 2024 Mar 08.
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ABSTRACT
We compute the total cross section and invariant mass distribution for heavy-quark pair production in e^{+}e^{-} annihilation at the next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order in QCD. The obtained results are expressed as piecewise functions defined by several deeply expanded power series, facilitating a rapid numerical evaluation. Utilizing top-pair production at a collision energy of 500 GeV as a benchmark, we observe a correction of approximately 0.1% for the total cross section and around 10% for the majority of the invariant mass distribution range. These results play a crucial role in significantly reducing theoretical uncertainty the scale dependence has been diminished to 0.06% for the total cross section and to 5% for the invariant mass distribution. This reduction of uncertainty meets the stringent requirements of future lepton colliders.
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