Super-leading logarithms in top-quark pair production at hadron colliders
Abstract
A bstract To date, the appearance and resummation of “super-leading” logarithms in hadron-hadron collisions has been studied only for massless parton states. We extend the formalism to include an arbitrary number of massive final states. We derive the corresponding anomalous dimension and identify an additional Coulomb phase that gives rise to a new source of super-leading logarithms. We then perform a systematic leading-logarithmic resummation of these contributions for 2 → M processes. Finally, we analyze the numerical impact in partonic scattering processes for $$ t\overline{t} $$ t t ¯ production, including a treatment of the Sommerfeld enhancement observed near threshold.
Fields of Study & Subjects
High-Energy Particle Collisions Research
Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies
Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Journal of High Energy Physics
- Publisher
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC
- Volume
- 2026
- Issue
- 2
- Publication date
- 9 February 2026
- Language
- EN