| Article | |
| Report number | arXiv:2212.03259 ; OUTP-22-11P ; MS-TP-22-51 ; CERN-TH-2022-142 |
| Title | Threshold resummation for the production of four top quarks at the LHC |
| Author(s) | van Beekveld, Melissa (Oxford U., Theor. Phys.) ; Kulesza, Anna (Munster U., ITP ; CERN) ; Valero, Laura Moreno (Munster U., ITP) |
| Publication | 2023-11-20 |
| Imprint | 2022-12-06 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Note | 8 pages, 3 figures, 1 table; v2: updated figures and tables |
| In: | Phys. Rev. Lett. 131 (2023) 211901 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.211901 (publication) |
| Subject category | hep-ph ; Particle Physics - Phenomenology |
| Accelerator/Facility, Experiment | CERN LHC |
| Abstract | We compute the total cross section for $t\bar{t}t\bar{t}$ production at next-to-leading logarithmic (NLL$^{\prime}$) accuracy. This is the first time resummation is performed for a hadron-collider process with four colored particles in the final state. The calculation is matched to the next-to-leading order strong and electroweak corrections. The NLL$^{\prime}$ corrections enhance the total production rate by 26%. The size of the theoretical error due to scale variation is reduced by close to a factor of two, bringing the theoretical error significantly below the current experimental uncertainty of the measurement. |
| Copyright/License | preprint: (License: arXiv nonexclusive-distrib 1.0) publication: © 2023-2025 authors (License: CC BY 4.0), sponsored by SCOAP³ |
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