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Top-quark physics plays an important role at hadron colliders such as the Tevatron at Fermilab or the upcoming Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. Given the planned experimental precision, detailed theoretical predictions are mandatory. In this article we present analytic results for the complete weak corrections to gluon-induced top-quark pair production – neglecting purely photonic corrections, completing our earlier results for the quark-induced reaction. As an application we discuss top-quark pair production at the Tevatron and LHC. In particular we show that, although they are small for inclusive quantities, weak corrections can be sizeable for differential distributions.
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Kühn, J., Scharf, A. & Uwer, P. Weak interaction effects in top-quark pair production at hadron colliders. Eur. Phys. J. C 51, 37–53 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-007-0275-x
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