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arxiv: 0804.4004 · v1 · submitted 2008-04-24 · ✦ hep-ph

Ultrasoft contribution to heavy-quark pair production near threshold

classification ✦ hep-ph
keywords contributionheavy-quarknearpairproductionthresholdultrasoftabsorption
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We compute the third-order correction to the heavy-quark current correlation function due to the emission and absorption of an ultrasoft gluon. Our result supplies a missing contribution to top-quark pair production near threshold and the determination of the bottom quark mass from QCD sum rules.

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