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We study the production of W bosons at large transverse momentum in pp collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). We calculate the complete next-to-leading order (NLO) corrections to the differential cross section. We find that the NLO…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Richard J. Gonsalves , Nikolaos Kidonakis , Agustin Sabio Vera

The process $p\,\pbar \rightarrow W^{\pm}Z + X \rightarrow \ell^\pm_1 \nu_1 \ell_2^+ \ell_2^- + X$ is calculated to ${\cal O}(\alpha_s)$ for general $C$ and $P$ conserving $WWZ$ couplings. At the Tevatron center of mass energy, the QCD…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-01 U. Baur , T. Han , J. Ohnemus

In this article, we consider the transverse momentum ($q_T$) distribution of $W$ and $Z$ bosons produced in hadronic collisions. We combine the $q_T$ resummation for QED and QCD radiation including the QED soft emissions from the $W$ boson…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-02 Andrea Autieri , Leandro Cieri , Giancarlo Ferrera , German F. R. Sborlini

We present a calculation of two photon radiation in W and Z boson production in hadronic collisions, based on the complete matrix elements for the processes q\bar q'\to\ell^\pm\nu\gamma\gamma and q\bar q\to\ell^+\ell^-\gamma\gamma,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-23 U. Baur , T. Stelzer

We present the next-to-leading-order (NLO) QCD corrections to the inclusive total cross section for the production of a Higgs boson in association with a top anti-top quark pair within the Standard Model at the Tevatron and the LHC.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Dawson , L. H. Orr , L. Reina , D. Wackeroth

The production of high-mass, color-singlet particles in hadron colliders is universally accompanied by initial state QCD radiation that is predominantly soft with respect to the hard process scale $Q$ and/or collinear with respect to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-05-12 Benjamin Fuks , Richard Ruiz

We present a full next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD corrections to diphoton production at the hadron colliders in both standard model and ADD model. The invariant mass and rapidity distributions of the diphotons are obtained using a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-02-02 M. C. Kumar , Prakash Mathews , V. Ravindran , Anurag Tripathi

We present the full NLO QCD corrections to the production of a W^+W^- pair in association with two jets in hadronic collisions, which is an important background to New Physics and Higgs boson searches. We include leptonic decays of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-04 N. Greiner , G. Heinrich , P. Mastrolia , G. Ossola , T. Reiter , F. Tramontano

We present a next-to-leading order QCD calculation for e+ nu_e mu+ nu_mu jj and e- nubar_e mu- nubar_mu jj production via weak boson fusion at a hadron collider in the form of a fully-flexible parton-level Monte Carlo program, which allows…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-07-11 B. Jager , C. Oleari , D. Zeppenfeld

We compute the mixed QCD$\otimes$QED corrections to the production of on-shell $Z$ bosons at the LHC at a fully-exclusive level. We also include the factorised NLO QCD correction to $Z$ boson production and NLO QED correction to $Z$ boson…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-29 Maximilian Delto , Matthieu Jaquier , Kirill Melnikov , Raoul Röntsch

We consider QCD radiative corrections to Higgs boson pair production through gluon fusion in proton collisions. We combine the exact next-to-leading order (NLO) contribution, which features two-loop virtual amplitudes with the full…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-06-13 Massimiliano Grazzini , Gudrun Heinrich , Stephen Jones , Stefan Kallweit , Matthias Kerner , Jonas M. Lindert , Javier Mazzitelli

We compute next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD corrections to the production of two massive electroweak bosons in gluon fusion. We consider both the prompt production process $gg \to VV$ and the production mediated by an exchange of an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-24 Fabrizio Caola , Matthew Dowling , Kirill Melnikov , Raoul Röntsch , Lorenzo Tancredi

We present an analytic next-to-leading order QCD calculation of the partonic cross sections for single-inclusive lepton production in hadronic collisions, when the lepton originates from the decay of an intermediate electroweak boson and is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 Felix Ringer , Werner Vogelsang

The production of $W^{\pm}$ and $Z^0$ bosons in collisions of longitudinally polarized protons allows to access various combinations of the polarized quark distributions from the study of double and single spin asymmetries. We compute the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 T. Gehrmann

We present a next-to-leading order (NLO) treatment of the production of a new charged heavy vector boson, generically called W', at hadron colliders via the Drell-Yan process. We fully consider the interference effects with the Standard…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-08-05 Andreas Papaefstathiou , Oluseyi Latunde-Dada

We use the recently proposed jettiness-subtraction scheme to provide the complete calculation of Higgs boson production in association with a jet in hadronic collisions through next-to-next-to-leading order in perturbative QCD. This method…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-08-11 Radja Boughezal , Christfried Focke , Walter Giele , Xiaohui Liu , Frank Petriello

We study higher-order QCD corrections beyond NLO for the associated production of a photon with a $W$ boson ($\gamma W^+$ and $\gamma W^-$ production) at the Large Hadron Collider. We calculate the NNLO soft-plus-virtual QCD corrections as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-11 Nikolaos Kidonakis , Alberto Tonero

Multi-loop scattering amplitudes are difficult to evaluate due to singularities of the integrals involved, especially with increasing number of loops, external legs, and mass scales. For the first time for hadronic collisions at two loops,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-26 Dario Kermanschah , Matilde Vicini

We consider QCD radiative corrections to the production of four charged leptons in hadron collisions. We present the computation of the next-to-leading order QCD corrections to the loop-induced gluon fusion contribution. Our predictions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-02-06 Massimiliano Grazzini , Stefan Kallweit , Marius Wiesemann , Jeong Yeon Yook

We present a computation of the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) QCD corrections to the production of a Higgs boson in association with a W boson at the LHC and the subsequent decay of the Higgs boson into a b-bbar pair, treating the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-02 Fabrizio Caola , Gionata Luisoni , Kirill Melnikov , Raoul Röntsch