Resummation for $s$-channel single-top production (2502.17631v1)

Abstract: I present results for $s$-channel single-top-quark production using soft-gluon resummation. I show that the soft-gluon corrections provide the dominant contribution to the QCD corrections, and that they approximate very well the exact results through NNLO. Furthermore, approximate N$^3$LO corrections are computed. The calculation treats the final-state $b$-quarks as massless but I also show how to extend the formalism to the case of massive $b$-quarks. The higher-order corrections are large at LHC energies and they improve the theoretical accuracy.