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Produktion einzelner Top-Quarks in nächst-zu-nächstführender Ordnung der QCD: Der Beitrag der Einschleifenamplituden quadriert

Anne-Sophia Schade
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Top quark physics are an appropriate laboratory to study phenomena of the Standard Model and to test the limits of this theory. To obtain a higher precision for top quark predictions, the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in the pertubative expansion of the top quark production cross-section has to be calculated. The next-to-leading order (NLO) results are already available and provide a rather good accuracy. But this precision might be accidental, because at NLO not all the possible colour exchanges which occur at the one-loop level are considered and they could have significant impact on the cross-section and its differential distributions. In order to have precise predictions of the single top quark production the complete NNLO calculation is necessary. In this thesis the contributions of the one-loop amplitudes squared in NNLO are calculated for one production channel ($\textit{t}$-channel). The other possible production channels of the single top quark are also investigated. With the presented setup well known results in literature are reproduced. Intermediate results are calculated with different independent methods and, if possible, compared with results from literature. The occurring ultraviolet divergencies are dealt with in conventional dimensional regularisation (CDR) in the $\bar{\text{MS}}$ scheme ("Modified Minimal Substraction Scheme"). The final result still has infrared divergencies. An anti-commuting scheme for the calculation with the $γ_5$ matrix in CDR is used. An alternative scheme for the treatment of $γ_5$ is the Larin scheme, which will be introduced and discussed.

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Anne-Sophia Schade. 2013-10-18. Produktion einzelner Top-Quarks in nächst-zu-nächstführender Ordnung der QCD: Der Beitrag der Einschleifenamplituden quadriert. https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.5725

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