Soft-gluon resummation for heavy quark production in hadronic collisions -art. no. 074014

We discuss the heavy quark production cross section near partonic threshold in hadronic collisions, including the resummation of leading and next-to-l eading logarithms arising from soft gluon emission. We show how to handle t he complications due to the non-universal non-leading logarithms. We give a nalytical results for the q (q) over bar partonic subprocess and numerical results in the DIS scheme for top quark production at the Fermilab Tevatron where the q (q) over bar channel dominates. [S0556-2821(99)01707-5].