Soft-gluon and Coulomb corrections to hadronic top-quark pair production beyond NNLO

Abstract

We construct a resummation at partial next-to-next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy for hadronic top-quark pair production near partonic threshold, including simultaneously soft-gluon and Coulomb corrections, and use this result to obtain approximate next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order predictions for the total top-quark pair-production cross section at the LHC. We generalize a required one-loop potential in non-relativistic QCD to the colour-octet case and estimate the remaining unknown two-loop potentials and three-loop anomalous dimensions. We obtain a moderate correction of $1.5\%$ relative to the next-to-next-to-leading order prediction and observe a reduction of the perturbative uncertainty below $\pm 5\%$.

47 pages, 5 figures, v2: published version, typos corrected (including scale uncertainties in Eqs. (4.16)-(4.20)), references added; v3: see added note on p.30 for changes; the results of this work are implemented in the program TOPIXS, which can be found at http://users.ph.tum.de/t31software/topixs/

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