* Astronomy

Title: Top++: a program for the calculation of the top-pair cross-section at hadron colliders
Authors: Michal Czakon, Alexander Mitov

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 through approximate NNLO and b) by including soft-gluon resummation for the hadronic cross-section in Mellin space with full next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy. The program offers the user significant flexibility through the large number (31) 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 programing experience from the user.

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