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arxiv: hep-ph/9607430 · v1 · submitted 1996-07-25 · ✦ hep-ph

Soft Gluon Resummation in Heavy Flavour Production

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keywords productionresummationsofttermsexpansionflavourgluonheavy
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I discuss the effect of resummation of soft gluons in hadronic production of high mass systems, and in particular in heavy flavour production. I show that in widely used $x$-space resummation formulae, spurious terms that grow factorially in the order of the perturbative expansion are present. These terms spoil the convergence of the perturbative expansion. I also show that it is possible to perform the soft gluon resummation in such a way that these terms are not present. Implications for top and high mass dijet production at the Tevatron are discussed.

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