0000000000248722
AUTHOR
Zong-guo Si
Running of the Charm-Quark Mass from HERA Deep-Inelastic Scattering Data
Physics letters / B 775, 233 - 238 (2017). doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2017.11.002
Top-quark pair production at next-to-next-to-leading order QCD in electron positron collisions
We set up a formalism, within the antenna subtraction framework, for computing the production of a massive quark-antiquark pair in electron positron collisions at next-to-next-to-leading order in the coupling $\alpha_s$ of quantum chromodynamics at the differential level. Our formalism applies to the calculation of any infrared-safe observable. We apply this set-up to the production of top-quark top antiquark pairs in the continuum. We compute the production cross section and several distributions. We determine, in particular, the top-quark forward-backward asymmetry at order $\alpha_s^2$. Our result agrees with previous computations of this observable.