Top quark pair and single top production at Tevatron and LHC energies

TL;DR

This paper provides updated theoretical calculations of top quark production cross sections and distributions at Tevatron and LHC energies, incorporating higher-order soft gluon corrections up to NNLL accuracy.

Contribution

It introduces approximate NNLO calculations for top quark production, including total and differential cross sections with resummed soft gluon effects.

Findings

Enhanced precision in top quark cross section predictions

Detailed top quark transverse momentum distributions at colliders

Inclusion of NNLL soft gluon resummation effects

Abstract

I present the latest calculations of total and differential cross sections for top-antitop pair production and single top quark production via all main partonic channels. Higher-order corrections from the resummation of soft gluons are added through NNLL accuracy. Detailed numerical results are presented for approximate NNLO cross sections and top quark transverse momentum distributions at the Tevatron and LHC colliders.