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arxiv: 1404.6493 · v2 · pith:OYWNZZ3Anew · submitted 2014-04-25 · ✦ hep-ph

NNLO QCD subtraction for top-antitop production in the qbar{q} channel

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keywords real-virtualsubtractionchanneldoublennloproductionreal-realterms
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We present the computation of the double real and real-virtual contributions to top-antitop pair production in the quark-antiquark channel at leading colour. The $q \bar q \to t \bar{t} g$ amplitudes contributing to the real-virtual part are computed with OpenLoops, and their numerical stability in the soft and collinear regions is found to be sufficiently high to perform a realistic NNLO calculation in double precision. The subtraction terms required at real-real and real-virtual levels are constructed within the antenna subtraction formalism extended to deal with the presence of coloured massive final state particles. We show that those subtraction terms approximate the real-real and real-virtual matrix elements in all their singular limits.

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