Weak interaction corrections to hadronic top quark pair production: contributions from quark-gluon and $b\bar{b}$ induced reactions

Abstract

As an addendum to our previous evaluation of the weak-interaction corrections to hadronic top-quark pair production we determine the leading weak-interaction contributions due to the subprocesses $b\bar{b}\to t\bar{t}$ and $gq(\bar{q})\to t\bar{t}q(\bar{q})$. For several distributions in $t\bar{t}$ production at the LHC we find that these contributions are non-negligible as compared to the weak corrections from the other partonic subprocesses.

Comments: Latex, 9 pages, 4 figures