Heavy-quark pair production at two loops in QCD
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We present updated predictions for the total cross section of top-quark pair production at Tevatron and LHC. For the LHC we also provide results at sqrt(s) = 10 TeV, in view of the anticipated run in 2008 and quote numbers for the production of new heavy-quark pairs with mass in the range 0.5 - 2 TeV. Our two-loop results incorporate all logarithmically enhanced terms near threshold including Coulomb corrections as well as the exact dependence on the renormalization and factorization scale through next-to-next-to-leading order in QCD.
6 pages, LaTeX, 2 figures. To appear in the proceedings of `Loops and Legs in Quantum Field Theory', April 2008, Sondershausen (Germany) and (shortened) DIS 2008, London, April 2008
6 pages, LaTeX, 2 figures. To appear in the proceedings of `Loops and Legs in Quantum Field Theory', April 2008, Sondershausen (Germany) and (shortened) DIS 2008, London, April 2008