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We discuss cross sections for tW production in proton-proton collisions at the LHC and at higher-energy colliders with energies of up to 100 TeV. We find that, remarkably, the soft-gluon corrections are numerically dominant even at very high collider energies. We present results with soft-gluon corrections at approximate NNLO and approximate N3LO matched to complete NLO results. These higher-order corrections are large and need to be included for better theoretical accuracy and smaller scale dependence. Total cross sections as well as top-quark and W-boson transverse-momentum and rapidity distributions are presented using various recent sets of parton distribution functions.
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Kidonakis, N., Yamanaka, N. Higher-order corrections for tW production at high-energy hadron colliders. J. High Energ. Phys. 2021, 278 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP05(2021)278
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