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We show how to correctly treat threshold singularities in fixed-order perturbative calculations of the electron anomalous magnetic moment and hadronic pair production processes such as top pair production. With respect to the former, we demonstrate the equivalence of the “non-perturbative”, resummed treatment of the vacuum polarization contribution, whose spectral function exhibits bound state poles, with the fixed-order cal-culation by identifying a threshold localized term in the four-loop spectral function. In general, we find that a modification of the dispersion relation by threshold subtractions is required to make fixed-order calculations well-defined and provide the subtraction term. We then solve the apparent problem of a divergent convolution of the partonic cross section with the parton luminosity in the computation of the top pair production cross section starting from the fourth-order correction. We find that when the computation is performed in the usual way as an integral of real and virtual corrections over phase space at a given order in the expansion in the strong coupling, an additional contribution has to be added at N3LO.
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Beneke, M., Ruiz-Femenía, P. Threshold singularities, dispersion relations and fixed-order perturbative calculations. J. High Energ. Phys. 2016, 145 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP08(2016)145
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