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Higgs boson pair production in the massless quark-antiquark channel proceeds at leading order (LO) via electroweak boson loops. We calculate the next-to-leading order QCD corrections to this process. For the corresponding two-loop…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-26 Marco Bonetti , Gudrun Heinrich , Philipp Rendler , William J. Torres Bobadilla

In this paper, we calculated the branching ratios and direct CP violation of the four $B\to K\pi$ decays with the inclusion of all currently known next-to-leading order (NLO) contributions by employing the perturbative QCD (pQCD)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-08-19 Wei Bai , Min Liu , Ying-Ying Fan , Wen-Fei Wang , Shan Cheng , Zhen-Jun Xiao

We investigate the electromagnetic properties of the fully charm tetraquark states, particularly incorporating contributions from internal gluon radiations. The paper first presents analytical expressions for the next-to-leading-order (NLO)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-29 Xinran Liu , Yefan Wang , Ruilin Zhu

The computation of perturbative corrections to processes involving heavy quarks is crucial for the precision program of the LHC and future colliders. In this article, we describe a powerful approach to calculate higher-orders in QCD…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-17 German F. R. Sborlini

The four-loop QCD corrections to the electroweak $\rho$-parameter arising from top and bottom quark loops are computed. Specifically we evaluate the missing ``non-singlet'' piece. Using algebraic methods the amplitude is reduced to a set of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 K. G. Chetyrkin , M. Faisst , J. H. Kühn , P. Maierhoefer , C. Sturm

We compute squared matrix elements at next-to-next-to-leading order in perturbative quantum chromodynamics for the production of two or three (on- or off-shell) photons mediated via (light or heavy) quark loops. Our method handles all cases…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-22 Dario Kermanschah , Matilde Vicini

This is a short review of recent developments in calculation of higher order corrections to various two-point correlators and related quantities in (massless) QCD.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-01-28 P. A. Baikov , K. G. Chetyrkin , J. H. Kühn

We describe the decomposition of one-loop QCD amplitudes in terms of colour-ordered building blocks. We give new expressions for the coefficients of QCD colour structures in terms of ordered objects called primitive amplitudes, for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 Harald Ita , Kemal Ozeren

Quantum loops in the Resonance Chiral Theory are needed to improve the implementation of non-perturbative QCD. Furthermore, the one-loop computations can predict chiral low-energy couplings at next-to-leading order, a very appealing task.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 I. Rosell

We present a detailed phenomenological study of the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) QCD corrections for $t$-channel single top (anti-)quark production and its semi-leptonic decay at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). We find the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-02 Edmond L. Berger , Jun Gao , Hua Xing Zhu

We present a new method to compute higher-order corrections to physical cross-sections, at Next-to-Leading Order and beyond. This method, based on the Loop Tree Duality, leads to locally integrable expressions in four dimensions. By…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-05 Felix Driencourt-Mangin

I discuss three different selected topics in top quark physics. The first topic concerns the next-to-next-to-leading order calculation of the hadroproduction of top quark pairs and the role of multiple polylogarithms in this calculation. I…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 J. G. Körner

We calculate, for the first time, the next-to-next-to leading order (NNLO) QCD corrections to spin correlations in top quark pair production at the LHC. The NNLO corrections play an important role in the description of the corresponding…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-28 Arnd Behring , Michal Czakon , Alexander Mitov , Andrew S. Papanastasiou , Rene Poncelet

We present the calculation of QCD radiative corrections to heavy-quark production at NNLO. The calculation is implemented in an updated version of \textsc{Matrix}, which allows us to obtain multidifferential predictions for stable top…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-20 Simone Devoto

With the advent of generalized unitarity and parametric integration techniques, the construction of a generic Next-to-Leading Order Monte Carlo becomes feasible. Such a generator will entail the treatment of QCD color in the amplitudes. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Walter Giele , Zoltan Kunszt , Jan Winter

We calculate the next-to-leading order(NLO) quantum chromodynamics(QCD) corrections to the inclusive process of $Z_0 \rightarrow B^*_c+\bar{c}+b$ under the non-relativistic QCD(NRQCD) factorization scheme. Technical details about…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-05 Jun Jiang , Long-Bin Chen , Cong-Feng Qiao

We compute the QCD corrections at next-to-leading order for the process $gg \rightarrow ZH$, including both the virtual two-loop terms and real-emission contributions. The two-loop box diagrams in the virtual corrections are approximated…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-24 Giuseppe Degrassi , Ramona Gröber , Marco Vitti , Xiaoran Zhao

Future hadron collider experiments are expected to record large to huge samples of $t\bar t$ events. The analysis of these data with respect to $t\bar t$ spin-spin correlations requires precise predictions of the production of these quark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 W. Bernreuther , A. Brandenburg , Z. G. Si

We complete the computation of two-loop helicity amplitudes required to obtain next-to-next-to-leading order QCD corrections for three-jet production at hadron colliders, including all contributions beyond the leading-color approximation.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-15 Giuseppe De Laurentis , Harald Ita , Vasily Sotnikov

We calculate the important next-to-leading-order (NLO) contributions to the $B \to K K^*$ decays from the vertex corrections, the quark loops, and the magnetic penguins in the perturbative QCD (pQCD) factorization approach. The pQCD…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-01-14 Zhi-Qing Zhang , Zhen-Jun Xiao