Top plus plus : A program for the calculation of the top-pair cross-section at hadron colliders

We present the program Top++ for the numerical evaluation of the total inclusive cross-section for producing top quark pairs at hadron colliders. The program calculates the cross-section in (a) fixed order approach with exact next-to-next-to leading order (NNLO) accuracy and (b) by including soft-gluon resummation for the hadronic cross-section in Mellin space with full next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic (NNLL) accuracy. The program offers the user significant flexibility through the large number (29) of available options. Top++ is written in C++. It has a very simple to use interface that is intuitive and directly reflects the physics. The running of the program requires no programming experience from the user. Program summary Program summary Program title: Top++ (ver. 2.0) Catalogue identifier: AETR_v1_0 Program summary UAL: http://cpc.cs.qub.ac.uk/summaries/AETR_v1_0.html Program obtainable from: CPC Program Library, Queen's University, Belfast, N. Ireland Licensing provisions: GNU General Public License No. of lines in distributed program, including test data, etc.: 15 896 No. of bytes in distributed program, including test data, etc.: 695 919 Distribution format: tar.gz Programming language: C++. Computer: any running a unix operating system. Program was developed and tested with GNU Compiler Collection, C++ compiler. Operating system: Linux; Mac OS X; can be adapted for other unix systems. RAM: typically less than 200 MB. Classification: 11.1. External routines: GNU Scientific Library (GSL); the Les Houches Accord pdf Interface (LHAPDF). Nature of problem: computation of the total cross-section in perturbative QCD. Solution method: numerical integration of the product of hard partonic cross-section (with or without soft gluon resummation) with two parton distribution functions. Additional comments: sub per-mill accuracy achievable in realistic time (program does not employ Monte Carlo methods). Running time: depending on the options. The program is optimized for speed. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.