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Title: NNLO QCD corrections to t -channel single top quark production and decay

Journal Article · · Physical Review D
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  1. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Lemont, IL (United States)
  2. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Lemont, IL (United States); Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA (United States)
  3. Michigan State Univ., East Lansing, MI (United States)
  4. Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)

We present a fully differential next-to-next-to-leading-order calculation of t -channel single top quark production and decay at the LHC under a narrow-width approximation and neglecting cross talk between incoming protons. We investigate the fiducial cross sections at 13 TeV, finding that the next-to-next-toleading- order QCD corrections can reach the level of -6%. The scale variations are reduced to the level of a percent. Our results can be utilized to improve experimental acceptance estimates and the measurements of the single top quark production cross section and the top quark electroweak couplings.

Research Organization:
Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States); Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP)
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0011090; AC02-06CH11357
OSTI ID:
1505717
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1328583
Journal Information:
Physical Review D, Vol. 94, Issue 7; ISSN 2470-0010
Publisher:
American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
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Cited by: 68 works
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