Revisiting the top-quark pair production at future $e^+e^-$ colliders

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Main Authors: Ma, Jin, Wang, Sheng-Quan, Sun, Ting, Shen, Jian-Ming, Wu, Xing-Gang
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author Ma, Jin
Wang, Sheng-Quan
Sun, Ting
Shen, Jian-Ming
Wu, Xing-Gang
author_facet Ma, Jin
Wang, Sheng-Quan
Sun, Ting
Shen, Jian-Ming
Wu, Xing-Gang
contents In this paper, we reanalyze the top-quark pair production at the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in QCD at future $e^+e^-$ colliders by using the Principle of Maximum Conformality (PMC) method. The PMC renormalization scales in $α_s$ are determined by absorbing the non-conformal $β$ terms by recursively using the Renormalization Group Equation (RGE). Unlike the conventional scale-setting method of fixing the scale at the center-of-mass energy $μ_r=\sqrt{s}$, the determined PMC scale $Q_\star$ is far smaller than the $\sqrt{s}$ and increases with the $\sqrt{s}$, yielding the correct physical behavior for the top-quark pair production process. Moreover, the convergence of the pQCD series for the top-quark pair production is greatly improved due to the elimination of the renormalon divergence. For a typical collision energy of $\sqrt{s}=500$ GeV, the PMC scale is $Q_\star=107$ GeV; the QCD correction factor $K$ for conventional results is $K\sim1+0.1244^{+0.0102+0.0012}_{-0.0087-0.0011}+0.0184^{-0.0086+0.0002}_{+0.0061-0.0003}$, where the first error is caused by varying the scale $μ_r\in[\sqrt{s}/2, 2\sqrt{s}]$ and the second error is from the top-quark mass $Δ{m_t}=\pm0.7$ GeV. After applying the PMC, the renormalization scale uncertainty is eliminated and the QCD correction factor $K$ is improved to $K\sim 1+0.1507^{+0.0015}_{-0.0015}-0.0057^{+0.0001}_{-0.0000}$, where the error is from the top-quark mass $Δ{m_t}=\pm0.7$ GeV. The PMC improved predictions for the top-quark pair production are helpful for detailed studies of properties of the top-quark at future $e^+e^-$ colliders.
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spellingShingle Revisiting the top-quark pair production at future $e^+e^-$ colliders
Ma, Jin
Wang, Sheng-Quan
Sun, Ting
Shen, Jian-Ming
Wu, Xing-Gang
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
In this paper, we reanalyze the top-quark pair production at the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in QCD at future $e^+e^-$ colliders by using the Principle of Maximum Conformality (PMC) method. The PMC renormalization scales in $α_s$ are determined by absorbing the non-conformal $β$ terms by recursively using the Renormalization Group Equation (RGE). Unlike the conventional scale-setting method of fixing the scale at the center-of-mass energy $μ_r=\sqrt{s}$, the determined PMC scale $Q_\star$ is far smaller than the $\sqrt{s}$ and increases with the $\sqrt{s}$, yielding the correct physical behavior for the top-quark pair production process. Moreover, the convergence of the pQCD series for the top-quark pair production is greatly improved due to the elimination of the renormalon divergence. For a typical collision energy of $\sqrt{s}=500$ GeV, the PMC scale is $Q_\star=107$ GeV; the QCD correction factor $K$ for conventional results is $K\sim1+0.1244^{+0.0102+0.0012}_{-0.0087-0.0011}+0.0184^{-0.0086+0.0002}_{+0.0061-0.0003}$, where the first error is caused by varying the scale $μ_r\in[\sqrt{s}/2, 2\sqrt{s}]$ and the second error is from the top-quark mass $Δ{m_t}=\pm0.7$ GeV. After applying the PMC, the renormalization scale uncertainty is eliminated and the QCD correction factor $K$ is improved to $K\sim 1+0.1507^{+0.0015}_{-0.0015}-0.0057^{+0.0001}_{-0.0000}$, where the error is from the top-quark mass $Δ{m_t}=\pm0.7$ GeV. The PMC improved predictions for the top-quark pair production are helpful for detailed studies of properties of the top-quark at future $e^+e^-$ colliders.
title Revisiting the top-quark pair production at future $e^+e^-$ colliders
topic High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.02363