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Soft-gluon corrections for $tqZ$ production

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2023-02-21 v1

Abstract

We study soft-gluon corrections for the associated production of a single top quark and a ZZ boson (tqZtqZ production) at hadron colliders. We find that the radiative corrections are dominated by soft-gluon emission. We calculate the approximate NNLO (aNNLO) cross section at LHC energies, including uncertainties from scale dependence and from parton distributions. We also calculate differential distributions in top-quark rapidity. We show that the aNNLO corrections are significant and they enhance the NLO cross section while decreasing theoretical uncertainties.

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@article{arxiv.2210.09542,
  title  = {Soft-gluon corrections for $tqZ$ production},
  author = {Nikolaos Kidonakis and Nodoka Yamanaka},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.09542},
  year   = {2023}
}

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10 pages, 4 figures

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