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We numerically compute the two-loop QCD corrections to $Z\gamma$ production at the LHC mediated by light- and heavy-quark box loops. The calculation employs the pipeline of refs. arXiv:2407.18051 and arXiv:2510.18801, which performs Monte…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-04 Dario Kermanschah , Matilde Vicini

We consider QCD radiative corrections to $W^+W^-b {\bar b}$ production with leptonic decays and massive bottom quarks at the LHC. We perform an exact next-to-leading order (NLO) calculation within the $q_T$-subtraction formalism and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-17 Luca Buonocore , Massimiliano Grazzini , Stefan Kallweit , Jonas M. Lindert , Chiara Savoini

We calculate the complete NLO QCD corrections to loop-induced $gg \rightarrow ZZ$ production including full top-quark mass effects. The two-loop virtual corrections are obtained by combining analytic results for the massless,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-27 Bakul Agarwal , Stephen Jones , Matthias Kerner , Andreas von Manteuffel

We present an analytical calculation of the two-loop QCD corrections to the electromagnetic form factor of heavy quarks. The two-loop contributions to the form factor are reduced to linear combinations of master integrals, which are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-07-29 J. Gluza , A. Mitov , S. Moch , T. Riemann

In this contribution we present our recent computation of the NNLO QCD corrections to the production of a Higgs boson associated with a top-antitop quark pair. This process is of great importance since it allows for a direct measurement of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-10 Simone Devoto

In this talk we present results of our recent calculations of cross sections and distributions for the associate production of top-antitop quark pairs with a heavy boson (Higgs, W, Z) at the LHC, obtained using threshold resummation in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-21 Anna Kulesza , Leszek Motyka , Daniel Schwartländer , Tomasz Stebel , Vincent Theeuwes

We present a computation of NNLO QCD corrections to the production of a Higgs boson in association with a $W$ boson at the LHC followed by the decay of the Higgs boson to a $b\bar{b}$ pair. At variance with previous NNLO QCD studies of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-01 Arnd Behring , Wojciech Bizon , Fabrizio Caola , Kirill Melnikov , Raoul Röntsch

We present the first calculation for the hadroproduction of a $W$ boson in association with a massive bottom ($b$) quark-antiquark pair at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in QCD perturbation theory. We exploit the hierarchy between the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-12 Luca Buonocore , Simone Devoto , Stefan Kallweit , Javier Mazzitelli , Luca Rottoli , Chiara Savoini

We present the calculation of the NLO QCD corrections to the associated production of a Higgs boson and two jets, in the infinite top-mass limit. We discuss the technical details of the computation and we show the numerical impact of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-28 H. van Deurzen , N. Greiner , G. Luisoni , P. Mastrolia , E. Mirabella , G. Ossola , T. Peraro , J. F. von Soden-Fraunhofen , F. Tramontano

We compute the two-loop massless QCD corrections to the helicity amplitudes for the production of two massive vector bosons in quark-antiquark annihilation, allowing for an arbitrary virtuality of the vector bosons: $q \bar q' \to V_1V_2$.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-10-28 Thomas Gehrmann , Andreas von Manteuffel , Lorenzo Tancredi

We compute the NLO QCD corrections to the loop-induced gluon fusion contribution in $W^+W^-$ production at the LHC. We consider the full leptonic process $pp\to \ell^+\ell^{\prime\, -}\nu_{\ell}{\bar\nu}_{\ell^\prime}+X$, by including…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-01 Massimiliano Grazzini , Stefan Kallweit , Marius Wiesemann , Jeong Yeon Yook

We present the NNLO corrections to top pair production in the quark-antiquark channel proportional to the number of light quark flavors $N_l$. While the double real corrections were derived previously, here we compute the real-virtual and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-22 Gabriel Abelof , Aude Gehrmann-De Ridder

We present the one-loop QCD corrections to the helicity amplitudes for the processes $q\qb \to W^+ W^-, Z Z, W^\pm Z, W^\pm \gamma$, or $Z \gamma$, including the subsequent decay of each massive vector boson into a pair of leptons. We also…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-15 L. Dixon , Z. Kunszt , A. Signer

We compute two-loop corrections to the associated production of a Higgs boson with a $Z$ boson and to off-shell $Z$ boson pair production in the gluon fusion channel, mediated by a heavy quark. We perform deep expansions in the high-energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-10 Joshua Davies , Dominik Grau , Kay Schönwald , Matthias Steinhauser , Daniel Stremmer , Marco Vitti

We present the NLO QCD corrections to the production of a W+W- pair and two b-jets, including the leptonic decays of the W bosons. Contributions from singly resonant and non-resonant top quarks are fully taken into account. We also discuss…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-12-25 Johannes Schlenk , Gudrun Heinrich , Jan Winter

We present an NLO simulation of WWbb production with massive b-quarks at the LHC. Off-shell and non-resonant contributions associated with top-pair and single-top channels and with leptonic W-boson decays are consistently taken into account…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-18 F. Cascioli , S. Kallweit , P. Maierhöfer , S. Pozzorini

We present the QCD radiative corrections to the full off-shell $\rm t\bar{t}W^+$ production, considering a final state with three charged leptons, two b jets and missing energy. All interferences, off-shell effects and spin correlations are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-16 Ansgar Denner , Giovanni Pelliccioli

We present the first results on the two-loop massless QCD corrections to the four-point amplitude $b+\overline{b} \rightarrow H+H$ in the five flavor scheme, treating bottom quarks as massless. This amplitude is sensitive to the trilinear…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-03 Ajjath A H , Pulak Banerjee , Amlan Chakraborty , Prasanna K. Dhani , Pooja Mukherjee , Narayan Rana , V. Ravindran

We present the two-loop virtual QCD corrections to the production of heavy quarks in gluon fusion. The results are exact in the limit when all kinematical invariants are large compared to the mass of the heavy quark up to terms suppressed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-05 M. Czakon , A. Mitov , S. Moch

We present a calculation of the NNLO QCD corrections to Z-boson pair production at hadron colliders, based on the N-jettiness method for the real radiation parts. We discuss the size and shape of the perturbative corrections along with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-20 G. Heinrich , S. Jahn , S. P. Jones , M. Kerner , Joao Pires