Effective field theory at colliders: top and squark pair production

by Martin Beneke (Stanford University)

Monday 21 Jun 2010, 14:00 → 15:00 Europe/Zurich

Cubotron 727 (EPFL)

Standard perturbative calculations of heavy-particle pair production may break down due to enhanced QCD corrections from soft gluon and Coulomb corrections. This talk provides a brief introduction to the modern (soft-collinear and non-relativistic) effective field theory perspective on the problem and shows how resummation is accomplished in this framework. Results are presented for top and squark pair production at the LHC and tops at the ILC and LHC. Suggested readings: M. Beneke et al. - Nucl.Phys.B643:431-476,2002; M. Beneke et al. - arXiv:1001.4621, arXiv:1001.4627