Top Quark Distributions in Hadronic Collisions

Abstract

We present kinematical distributions for top quark pairs produced at the Tevatron \ppbar\ Collider, as predicted within Next-to-Leading-Order QCD. We consider single and double-inclusive distributions, and compare our results to those obtained with the shower Monte Carlo HERWIG. We discuss the implications of our findings for experimental issues such as the measurement of the top quark mass.

Figures (5)

• Figure 1: Inclusive $p_{ T}$ distribution of the top quark.
• Figure 2: Inclusive pseudorapidity distribution of the top quark.
• Figure 3: Invariant mass distribution of the $t\bar{t}$ pair.
• Figure 4: Transverse momentum distribution of the $t\bar{t}$ pair.
• Figure 5: Azimuthal distance distribution of the $t\bar{t}$ pair.