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We propose a new method of computing real emission contributions to hard QCD processes. Our approach uses sector decomposition of the exclusive final-state phase space to enable extraction of all singularities of the real emission matrix…

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We describe an algorithm for improving subsequent parton shower emissions by full SU(3) color correlations in the framework of a dipole-type shower. As a proof of concept, we present results from the first implementation of such an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 Simon Platzer , Malin Sjodahl

The partons' transverse momentum can be explored with QCD lattice simulations by studying the quasi-transverse-momentum-dependent parton distribution functions (qTMDPDFs), which are factorized in terms of physical TMDPDFs and soft factors…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-19 Óscar del Río , Alexey Vladimirov

In this talk we discuss an algorithm for the numerical calculation of one-loop QCD amplitudes and present results at next-to-leading order for jet observables in electron-positron annihilation calculated with the above-mentioned method. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-12-16 S. Becker , D. Goetz , C. Reuschle , C. Schwan , S. Weinzierl

This paper proposes a new second-order symmetric algorithm for solving decoupled forward-backward stochastic differential equations. Inspired by the alternating direction implicit splitting method for partial differential equations, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-16 Wenbo Wang , Guangyan Jia

A method for calculating phase-space master integrals for the decay process $1 \to n$ massless partons in QCD using integration-by-parts and differential equations techniques is discussed. The method is based on the appropriate choice of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-23 O. Gituliar

In order to numerically compute scattering cross sections in QCD, one needs to deal with various kinematic divergences that appear at intermediate stages of the calculation. One way of doing this is by setting up an IR subtraction scheme.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-06 S. Van Thurenhout , V. Del Duca , C. Duhr , L. Fekésházy , F. Guadagni , P. Mukherjee , G. Somogyi , F. Tramontano

We consider idealized parton shower event generators that treat parton spin and color exactly, leaving aside the choice of practical approximations for spin and color. We investigate how the structure of such a parton shower generator is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-09-21 Zoltan Nagy , Davison E. Soper

We compute the next-to-leading order O(g) correction to the thermal photon production rate in a QCD plasma. The NLO contributions can be expressed in terms of gauge invariant condensates on the light cone, which are amenable to novel sum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-09 Jacopo Ghiglieri , Juhee Hong , Aleksi Kurkela , Egang Lu , Guy D. Moore , Derek Teaney

We present a first application of a previously published method for the computation of QCD processes that is accurate at next-to-leading order, and that can be interfaced consistently to standard shower Monte Carlo programs. We have…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Paolo Nason , Giovanni Ridolfi

Recent calculations of heavy quark cross sections near threshold at next-to-next-to-leading order have found second-order corrections as large as first-order ones. We analyse long-distance contributions to the heavy quark potential in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Beneke

A systematic method is proposed for analyzing the renormalization scheme uncertainties in the next-next-to-leading order QCD predicitions, based on a condition which eliminates schemes that give rise to large cancellations in the expression…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Piotr A. Raczka

Standard dipole parton showers are known to yield incorrect subleading-colour contributions to the leading (double) logarithmic terms for a variety of observables. In this work, concentrating on final-state showers, we present two simple,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-29 Keith Hamilton , Rok Medves , Gavin P. Salam , Ludovic Scyboz , Gregory Soyez

We present an algorithm for massive parton evolution which is based on the differentially accurate simulation of soft-gluon radiation by means of a non-trivial azimuthal angle dependence of the splitting functions. The kinematics mapping is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-04 Benoit Assi , Stefan Höche

In this article, we present a Next-to-Leading Order (NLO) QCD analysis to study the role and influence of different schemes on simultaneous determination of the Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs) and strong coupling, $\alpha_s(M^2_Z)$. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-09-26 A. Vafaee , A. N. Khorramian

We showcase the application of neural importance sampling for the evaluation of NNLO QCD scattering cross sections. We consider Normalizing Flows in the form of discrete Coupling Layers and time continuous flows for the integration of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-17 Timo Janßen , Rene Poncelet , Steffen Schumann

Perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics has experienced an impressive progress in the last few years, boosted by the requirements of the LHC experimental program. In this contribution, I briefly review a selection of recent results in QCD and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-02 Juan Rojo

We compute the next-to-leading-power corrections in the $N$-jettiness variable to the production of a prompt photon and a jet at next-to-leading order in perturbative QCD in the $q \bar q$ annihilation channel. We employ the $k_\perp$ jet…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-06 Prem Agarwal , Kirill Melnikov , Ivan Pedron

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 method suggested in this paper allows to express the n-th order renorm-group equation solutions over the powers of the two-loop solution, that can be obtained explicitly in terms of the Lambert function. On the one hand this expansion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Dmitri S. Kourashev