Top Quark Production

Abstract

I discuss top quark production in hadronic collisions. I present the soft-gluon resummation formalism and its derivation from factorization and renormalization-group evolution, and two-loop calculations of soft anomalous dimensions in the eikonal approximation. I discuss the contributions of next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) soft-gluon corrections to the total cross sections and top-quark transverse momentum and rapidity distributions for top-antitop pair production, and for single-top production in the $t$ and $s$ channels and in association with a $W$ boson or a charged Higgs boson.

Comments: 30 pages, 25 figures, 4 tables; based on three invited lectures at the Physics of Heavy Quarks and Hadrons (HQ2013) Summer School, Dubna, Russia, July 15-28, 2013