17–24 Jul 2013
KTH and Stockholm University Campus
Europe/Stockholm timezone

Top-quark Pair Production in a Running Mass Scheme

19 Jul 2013, 11:00
20m
F2 (KTH Campus)

F2

KTH Campus

Talk presentation Top and Electroweak Physics Top and Electroweak Physics

Speaker

Matthew Dowling (DESY)

Description

Between the Tevatron and LHC, top-quark physics is now becoming an area for precision physics. This has lead to an increase in theoretical activity to match the experimental accuracy of top anti-top production. In this talk I discuss the difficulty in properly defining the top-quark mass as measured by experiments and present results for differential distributions of top-quark pair production in a running mass scheme. The use of such a scheme shows better convergence in the perturbative expansion and improves the scale dependence as opposed to the typical on-shell scheme.

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