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We study the QCD corrections at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) to the cross section for the hadronic pair-production of top quarks. We present new results in the high-energy limit using the well-known framework of k_t-factorization.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-04 S. Moch , P. Uwer , A. Vogt

Within NRQCD factorization framework, in this work we compute, at the lowest order in velocity expansion, the next-to-leading-order (NLO) perturbative corrections to the short-distance coefficients associated with heavy quark fragmentation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-28 Feng Feng , Yu Jia , Wen-Long Sang

We compute the next-to-next-to-leading order QCD corrections for Standard Model Higgs boson pair production inclusive cross section at hadron colliders within the large top-mass approximation. We provide numerical results for the LHC,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-12-24 Daniel de Florian , Javier Mazzitelli

We compute the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) contributions to the three splitting functions governing the evolution of unpolarized non-singlet combinations of quark densities in perturbative QCD. Our results agree with all partial…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Moch , J. A. M. Vermaseren , A. Vogt

The prospective Higgs factories, exemplified by ILC, FCC-ee and CEPC, plan to conduct the precision Higgs measurements at the $e^+e^-$ center-of-mass energy around 250 GeV. The cross sections for the dominant Higgs production channel, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-09-13 Qing-Feng Sun , Feng Feng , Yu Jia , Wen-Long Sang

We calculate the one-loop QCD corrections for the decay of an off-shell vector boson with vector couplings into two pairs of quarks of equal or unequal flavours keeping all orders in the number of colours. These matrix elements are relevant…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 E. W. N. Glover , D. J. Miller

We address the long-standing problem of negative decay and production rates in perturbative QCD for exclusive processes by proposing amplitude-level NRQCD factorization as a systematic prescription. Building on this, we present the first…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-09 Chao Zeng , Bin Gong , Jian-Xiong Wang , Ruichang Niu , Xu-Dong Huang , Cong Li

Charged current Drell-Yan production at hadron colliders is a benchmark electroweak process. A recent measurement of the W boson mass by the CDF experiment displays a large deviation from the Standard Model prediction. To enable precision…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-19 Xuan Chen , Thomas Gehrmann , Nigel Glover , Alexander Huss , Tong-Zhi Yang , Hua Xing Zhu

We present a comprehensive investigation of next-to-leading order (NLO) quantum chromodynamics (QCD) corrections to Higgs boson pair production and the subsequent decay into $b\bar{b}\tau^+ \tau^-$. We adopt the narrow-width approximation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-18 Hai Tao Li , Zong-Guo Si , Jian Wang , Xiao Zhang , Dan Zhao

We discuss $1/Q$ corrections to hard processes in QCD where $Q$ is a large mass parameter like the total energy in $e^+e^-$ annihilation. The main problem we address ourselves to is whether these corrections to different processes…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 R. Akhoury , V. I. Zakharov

The $\gamma+\gamma\rightarrow J/\psi+c+\bar{c}$ inclusive process is an extremely important subprocess in $J/\psi$ production via photon-photon scattering, like at LEP\uppercase\expandafter{\romannumeral2} or various types future…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-02-15 Zi-Qiang Chen , Long-Bin Chen , Cong-Feng Qiao

We present a study of $W^+W^+jj$ and $W^-W^-jj$ production including leptonic decays in hadron-hadron collisions. The full electroweak and QCD induced contributions and their interferences are calculated at leading order. We find that, for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-03-24 Francisco Campanario , Matthias Kerner , Le Duc Ninh , Dieter Zeppenfeld

Motivated by ongoing experimental analyses, we report on the calculation of next-to-leading order QCD corrections to the production of top anti-top pairs in association with two hard b-jets at the Fermilab TeVatron. Besides the total cross…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-03-05 Malgorzata Worek

We present results of a computation of NLO QCD corrections to the production of an off-shell top--antitop pair in association with an off-shell $\text{W}^+$ boson in proton--proton collisions. As the calculation is based on the full matrix…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-21 Ansgar Denner , Giovanni Pelliccioli

The $J/\psi+Z^0$ associated production at the LHC is an important process in investigating the color-octet mechanism of non-relativistic QCD in describing the processes involving heavy quarkonium. We calculate the next-to-leading order…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-11-20 Song Mao , Ma Wen-Gan , Li Gang , Zhang Ren-You , Guo Lei

The process ${\rm p}{\rm p}\to\mu^+\nu_\mu{\rm e}^+\nu_{\rm e}{\rm j}{\rm j}$ receives several contributions of different orders in the strong and electroweak coupling constants. Using appropriate event selections, this process is dominated…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-08 Benedikt Biedermann , Ansgar Denner , Mathieu Pellen

We report on the two-loop amplitude computation for the mixed QCD-electroweak corrections to the process $gg \to Hg$, with exact dependence on the electroweak boson masses. This amplitude has been employed in the computation of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-11 Matteo Becchetti , Francesco Moriello , Armin Schweitzer

We determine the next-to-leading logarithmic (NLL) QCD corrections to the cross section sigma(e+e- to t bar t H) for center-of-mass energies up to 500 GeV. The dynamics is dominated by nonrelativistic effects, and the summation of terms…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 C. Farrell , A. H. Hoang

We calculate the NNLO QCD corrections to diphoton production with an additional jet at the LHC. Our calculation represents the first NNLO-accurate prediction for the transverse momentum distribution of the diphoton system. The improvement…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-08 Herschel A. Chawdhry , Michal Czakon , Alexander Mitov , Rene Poncelet

We report on the calculation of the next-to-leading order QCD corrections to the production of W-boson pairs in association with a hard jet at hadron colliders, which is an important source of background for Higgs and new-physics searches.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Stefan Dittmaier , Stefan Kallweit , Peter Uwer