Eur. Phys. J. C (2012) 72: 2084
https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-012-2084-0

Regular Article - Theoretical Physics

Top-quark production and QCD

¹ Kennesaw State University, Physics #1202, Kennesaw, GA, 30144, USA
² Institut für Physik (THEP), Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, 55099, Mainz, Germany

^* e-mail: nkidonak@kennesaw.edu

Received: 7 June 2012
Published online: 27 July 2012

Abstract

We review theoretical calculations for top-quark production that include complete next-to-leading-order QCD corrections as well as higher-order soft-gluon corrections from threshold resummation. We discuss in detail the differences between various approaches that have appeared in the literature and review results for top-quark total cross sections and differential distributions at the Tevatron and the LHC.