Leading Weak Corrections to the Production of Heavy Top Quarks at Hadron Colliders

Abstract

We calculate the leading weak corrections at [Formula: see text] to the QCD production of heavy top quark pairs via [Formula: see text] at hadron colliders and compare them with the complete one-loop weak corrections. We find that these corrections dominate the threshold region for a heavy top quark if the Higgs boson is light. For a heavy Higgs boson, these corrections are generally small. The chromo-anapole form factor of the top quark and effects of parity violation are studied in the Standard Model (SM). The parity violation effect in [Formula: see text] from the SM weak corrections is found to be very small, so any observation of large parity violation in this process would indicate new physics. The polarization of the [Formula: see text] pairs is also discussed, including the effect that this has on proposed techniques for measuring the top quark mass.