Top-quark production and QCD

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.

Comments: 35 pages, 10 figures; invited review for a special "Top and flavor physics in the LHC era" issue of the European Physical Journal C