QCD Corrections to Scalar Diquark Production at Hadron Colliders

We calculate the next-to-leading order QCD corrections to quark-quark annihilation to a scalar resonant state (“diquark”) in a color representation of antitriplet or sextet at the Tevatron and LHC energies. At the LHC, we find the enhancement (K-factor) for the antitriplet diquark is typically about 1.31–1.35, and for the sextet diquark is about 1.22–1.32 for initial-state valence quarks. The full transverse-momentum spectrum for the diquarks is also calculated at the LHC by performing the soft gluon resummation to the leading logarithm and all orders in the strong coupling.