Top pair production at hadron colliders in non-minimal standard models

Abstract

The cross section of top pair production in hadronic collisions to O( αα s 2) is calculated within the General 2-Higgs Doublet Model and the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model. At the parton level the O( α) one-loop corrections to the main production mechanisms, qq → t tt and gg → tt significantly modify the Born cross sections: in the threshold region √ s ̌ ≳ 2m t , they are enhanced up to 50% and with increasing cm energy √ s ̌ they can be reduced by up to the same order of magnitude. In a wide range of the parameter space of the models under consideration the observable hadronic cross sections for top pair production at the Tevatron pp → tt X and at the LHC pp → ttX are typically reduced by several percent (≲ 10%) compared to the lowest order result. In special regions of the parameter space, that is in the vicinity of the threshold for the top quark decay t → b H +; t X 0 , the radiative corrections are considerably enhanced, comparable in size to QCD effects.