Renormalization-group improved calculation of top-quark production near threshold.
The top-quark cross section close to threshold in e(+)e(-) annihilation is computed including the summation of logarithms of the velocity at next-to-next-to-leading-logarithmic order in QCD. The remaining theoretical uncertainty in the normalization of the total cross section is at the few-percent level, an order of magnitude smaller than in previous next-to-next-to-leading order calculations. This uncertainty is smaller than the effects of a light standard-model Higgs boson.
Hoang
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Theory Division, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland.
Manohar
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Stewart
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