NNLO $t$-channel single-top-quark production revisited
ORAL
Abstract
Single-top-quark production is an important channel for measuring the top-quark mass, the Cabibbo-Kobayashi-Maskawa matrix element $V_{tb}$, and provides strong constraints on the parton distribution functions. Previous NNLO QCD calculations of $t$-channel production disagree by 100\% of the size of the NNLO correction, and are limited to using to top-quark mass as a fixed choice of scale. We present a new fully differential NNLO calculation that allows for a variety of scale choices and tracks $b$-flavored jets.
*Supported in part by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science under Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11359.
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