1–11 Sept 2025
Europe/Zurich timezone

On the threshold behaviour of heavy top production

Speaker

Torbjorn Sjostrand (Lund University (SE))

Description

Back in 1990 an article by Victor Fadin. Valery Khoze and the speaker studied the effects of Coulomb enhancements and pseudo-bound below-threshold contributions ("toponium").
The relevant formulae have now been recoded and made available as an add-on to Pythia8, both for singlet and octet states.
Cross sections can be explored under varying assumptions. Complete events can be generated, but t-tbar spin correlations are lacking.

Author

Torbjorn Sjostrand (Lund University (SE))

Presentation materials