Top Quark Theoretical Cross Sections and pT and Rapidity Distributions

Abstract

I present theoretical results for the top quark pair total cross section, and for the top quark transverse momentum and rapidity distributions at Tevatron and LHC energies. I also present results for single top quark production in the t- and s-channels and also via associated production with a W boson. The calculations include approximate NNLO corrections that are derived from NNLL soft-gluon resummation.

Comments: 8 pages, 10 figures; Proceedings of the DPF-2011 Conference, Providence, RI, August 8-13, 2011