Total and Differential Cross Sections for Higgs and Top-Quark Production
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Higher-Order Soft-Gluon Corrections
3. Charged Higgs Production
4. Production via Anomalous Couplings
5. Single-Top Production
6. Top-Antitop Pair Production
7. Conclusions
Funding
Conflicts of Interest
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