The renormalization scale-setting problem in QCD

XG Wu, SJ Brodsky, M Mojaza - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2013 - Elsevier
A key problem in making precise perturbative QCD predictions is to set the proper
renormalization scale of the running coupling. The conventional scale-setting procedure …

Asymmetries in top quark pair production at hadron colliders

JA Aguilar-Saavedra, D Amidei, A Juste… - Reviews of Modern …, 2015 - APS
The asymmetries in top quark pair production at the Tevatron and the LHC are reviewed.
The experimental measurements and the interpretations of a possible excess in terms of …

NNLO corrections to top-pair production at hadron colliders: the all-fermionic scattering channels

M Czakon, A Mitov - Journal of High Energy Physics, 2012 - Springer
A bstract This is a second paper in our ongoing calculation of the next-to-next-to-leading
order (NNLO) QCD correction to the total inclusive top-pair production cross-section at …

Search for a light charged Higgs boson in top quark decays in pp collisions at

S Chatrchyan, V Khachatryan, AM Sirunyan… - Journal of High Energy …, 2012 - Springer
A bstract Results are presented on a search for a light charged Higgs boson that can be
produced in the decay of the top quark t→ H+ b and which, in turn, decays into τ+ ν τ. The …

Measurement of the t t-bar production cross section in the dilepton channel in pp collisions at sqrt (s)= 7 TeV

CMS collaboration - arXiv preprint arXiv:1208.2671, 2012 - arxiv.org
The t t-bar production cross section (sigma [t t-bar]) is measured in proton-proton collisions
at sqrt (s)= 7 TeV in data collected by the CMS experiment, corresponding to an integrated …

Combination of the top-quark mass measurements from the Tevatron collider

T Aaltonen, VM Abazov, B Abbott, BS Acharya… - Physical Review D …, 2012 - APS
The top quark is the heaviest known elementary particle, with a mass about 40 times larger
than the mass of its isospin partner, the bottom quark. It decays almost 100% of the time to a …

Measurement of the top quark pair production cross section in pp collisions at sqrt (s)= 7 TeV in dilepton final states with ATLAS

Atlas Collaboration - arXiv preprint arXiv:1108.3699, 2011 - arxiv.org
A measurement of the production cross section of top quark pairs (ttbar) in proton-proton
collisions at a center-of-mass energy of 7 TeV recorded with the ATLAS detector at the Large …

Measurement of the tt¯ production cross section in pp collisions at s<? format?>=<? format?> 7 TeV<? format?> in dilepton final states containing a τ

S Chatrchyan, V Khachatryan, AM Sirunyan… - Physical Review D …, 2012 - APS
The top quark pair production cross section is measured in dilepton events with one electron
or muon, and one hadronically decaying τ lepton from the decay tt¯→(ℓ ν ℓ)(τ h ν τ) bb¯,(ℓ …

Eliminating the Renormalization Scale Ambiguity for Top-Pair Production<? format?> Using the Principle of Maximum Conformality

SJ Brodsky, XG Wu - Physical Review Letters, 2012 - APS
It is conventional to choose a typical momentum transfer of the process as the
renormalization scale and take an arbitrary range to estimate the uncertainty in the QCD …

Predictions for cold nuclear matter effects in p+ Pb collisions at sNN= 8.16 TeV

JL Albacete, F Arleo, GG Barnaföldi, G Biro… - Nuclear Physics A, 2018 - Elsevier
Predictions for cold nuclear matter effects on charged hadrons, identified light hadrons,
quarkonium and heavy flavor hadrons, Drell–Yan dileptons, jets, photons, gauge bosons …