Threshold resummation of soft gluons in hadronic reactions - an introduction.

Conference · Tue Feb 17 00:00:00 EST 1998

OSTI ID:10645

Berger, E L

The authors discuss the motivation for resummation of the effects of initial-state soft gluon radiation, to all orders in the strong coupling strength, for processes in which the near-threshold region in the partonic subenergy is important. The author summarizes the method of perturbative resummation and its application to the calculation of the total cross section for top quark production at hadron colliders. Comments are included on the differences between the treatment of subleading logarithmic terms in this method and in other approaches.

• Research Organization: Argonne National Lab., IL (US)
• Sponsoring Organization: US Department of Energy (US)
• DOE Contract Number: W-31109-ENG-38
• OSTI ID: 10645
• Report Number(s): ANL-HEP-CP-98-03; TRN: US0103787
• Resource Relation: Conference: Symposium on QCD Corrections and New Physics, Hiroshima (JP), 10/17/1997--10/29/1997; Other Information: PBD: 17 Feb 1998
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS
GLUONS
HADRON REACTIONS
PARTICLE PRODUCTION
QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS
T QUARKS
TOTAL CROSS SECTIONS
LINEAR COLLIDERS