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Revisiting the top-quark pair production at future $e^+e^-$ colliders
- Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- 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 $\alpha_s$ are determined by absorbing the non-conformal $\beta$ 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 $\mu_r=\sqrt{s}$, 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 $\mu_r\in[\sqrt{s}/2, 2\sqrt{s}]$ and the second error is from the top-quark mass $\Delta{m_t}=\pm0.7$ 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 $\Delta{m_t}=\pm0.7$ 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.<br />Comment: 8 pages, 3 figures. Accepted by Chinese Physics C
- Subjects :
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
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- Database :
- arXiv
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.2402.02363
- Document Type :
- Working Paper
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1088/1674-1137/ad243e