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We present a fully-exclusive next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) QCD calculation for vector boson production in hadron-hadron collisions. The calculation is implemented in a parton level Monte Carlo program, which includes the gamma-Z…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-01-25 Giancarlo Ferrera

We compute the order $\alpha_s^2$ QCD corrections to the $b$-quark forward-backward asymmetry in $e^+e^-\to b{\bar b}$ collisions at the $Z$ boson resonance, taking the non-zero mass of the $b$ quark into account. We determine these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-02-01 Werner Bernreuther , Long Chen , Oliver Dekkers , Thomas Gehrmann , Dennis Heisler

This work studies the associated production of a top-quark pair with a $W$, $Z$, or Higgs boson at the LHC. Predictions for the total cross sections as well as for several differential distributions of the massive particles in the final…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-04 Alessandro Broggio , Andrea Ferroglia , Rikkert Frederix , Davide Pagani , Benjamin D. Pecjak , Ioannis Tsinikos

The O(alpha) virtual weak radiative corrections to many hadron collider processes are known to become large and negative at high energies, due to the appearance of Sudakov-like logarithms. At the same order in perturbation theory, weak…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 U. Baur

We present the calculation of next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) corrections in perturbative QCD for the production of a Higgs boson decaying into a pair of bottom quarks in association with a leptonically decaying weak vector boson:…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-08 R. Gauld , A. Gehrmann-De Ridder , E. W. N. Glover , A. Huss , I. Majer

We calculate the leading electroweak corrections to the light neutral Higgs boson production via $q\bar q'\to WH$ at the Fermilab Tevatron in both the standard model and the minimal supersymmetric model, which arise from the top-quark and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-01-13 Qing Hong Cao , Chong Sheng Li , Shou Hua Zhu

The production of W or Z bosons in association with two jets is an important background to the Higgs boson search in vector-boson fusion at the LHC. The purely electroweak component of this background is dominated by vector-boson fusion,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Carlo Oleari , Dieter Zeppenfeld

We report the first complete calculation of QCD corrections to the production of a massive color-octet vector boson. Our next-to-leading-order (NLO) calculation includes both virtual corrections as well as corrections arising from the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-19 R. Sekhar Chivukula , Arsham Farzinnia , Roshan Foadi , Elizabeth H. Simmons

In this paper we study the Single Top and W boson associated photoproduction via the main reaction $\rm pp\rightarrow p\gamma p\rightarrow pW^{\pm}t+Y$ at the 14 TeV Large Hadron Collider (LHC) up to next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD level…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-22 Hao Sun , Wei Liu , Xiao-Juan Wang , Ya-Jin Zhou , Hong-Sheng Hou

We report on the calculation of $W^\pm Zjj$ production with leptonic decays at hadron-hadron colliders at next-to-leading order in QCD. These processes are important both to test the quartic gauge couplings of the Standard Model and because…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-08-08 Francisco Campanario , Matthias Kerner , Le Duc Ninh , Dieter Zeppenfeld

We present the NLO QCD corrections to the processes p p and p anti-p to W+ W- b anti-b including leptonic decays of the W bosons. Non-resonant contributions as well as diagrams with doubly resonant and singly resonant top quark propagators…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-18 Gudrun Heinrich , Andreas Maier , Richard Nisius , Johannes Schlenk , Jan Winter

We study QCD corrections to the process where a Higgs boson is produced in weak boson fusion and then decays into a pair of massive $b$ quarks. We find that typical experimental criteria used to identify $b$ jets in this process affect QCD…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-15 Konstantin Asteriadis , Arnd Behring , Kirill Melnikov , Ivan Novikov , Raoul Röntsch

We present quantitative results on the cross section for $\gamma + \gamma (J_z=0) \to b \bar{b}\to two b$-jets based on the recently achieved all orders resummation of large soft (Sudakov) and hard (non-Sudakov) double logarithms. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-13 Michael Melles , W. James Stirling

We present a calculation of the next-to-leading order QCD corrections, with one-scale phase space slicing method, to single top quark production and decay process $p\bar{p},pp\to t\bar{b}+X\to b\ell\nu\bar{b}+X$ at hadron colliders. Using…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Qing-Hong Cao , C. -P. Yuan

We present calculations of higher-order QCD and electroweak (EW) corrections to the associated production of a top-antitop quark pair and a $Z$ boson, i.e. $t{\bar t}Z$ production, in proton collisions. We find that the contributions from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-21 Nikolaos Kidonakis , Chris Foster

We present the full next-to-leading-order electroweak and QCD corrections to vector-boson scattering into a pair of off-shell opposite-sign W bosons decaying into leptons of different flavour at the LHC. We include full leading-order…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-11 Ansgar Denner , Robert Franken , Timo Schmidt , Christopher Schwan

The supersymmetric QCD corrections to top quark pair production by $q\bar q$ annihilation in $p\bar p$ collisions are calculated in the minimal supersymmetric model. We consider effects of the mixing of the scalar top quarks on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 Chong Sheng Li , Hong Yi Zhou , Yun Lun ZhU , Jin Min Yang

In this paper, we present results at next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD for photon pair production in association with two jets via vector boson scattering within the Standard Model (SM), and also in an effective field theory framework with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-15 Francisco Campanario , Matthias Kerner , Le Duc Ninh , Ivan Rosario

Triboson production processes play a crucial role in probing the electroweak sector of the Standard Model, as they involve quartic gauge-boson couplings already at the tree level. With these measurements entering the precision era at the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-26 Paolo Garbarino , Massimiliano Grazzini , Stefan Kallweit , Chiara Savoini

The top quark forward-backward asymmetry measured at the Fermilab Tevatron collider deviates from the standard model prediction. A W^prime boson model is described, where the coupling W^prime-t-d is fixed by the tt_bar forward-backward…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-04 Daniel Duffty , Zack Sullivan , Hao Zhang