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We present a new determination of the top-quark mass $m_t$ based on the experimental data from the Tevatron and the LHC for single-top hadro-production. We use the inclusive cross sections of $s$- and $t$-channel top-quark production to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-21 S. Alekhin , S. Moch , S. Thier

The inclusive transverse momentum and rapidity distributions for top quark production at the Fermilab Tevatron are presented both in order $\alpha_s^3$ in QCD and using the resummation of the leading soft gluon corrections in all orders of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-01 N. Kidonakis , J. Smith

I present theoretical calculations for Higgs-boson and top-quark production, including high-order soft-gluon corrections. I discuss charged-Higgs production in association with a top quark or a $W$ boson, as well as single-top and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-21 Nikolaos Kidonakis

We present updated predictions for the total cross section of top-quark pair production at Tevatron and LHC. For the LHC we also provide results at sqrt(s) = 10 TeV, in view of the anticipated run in 2008 and quote numbers for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Moch , P. Uwer

We derive high-order threshold corrections for top quark production in hadronic collisions from resummation calculations. We present analytical expressions for the cross section through next-to-next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order (N^4LO)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Nikolaos Kidonakis

The study of top-quark production and decay is central in the LHC physics programme, allowing precise tests of the Standard Model and offering a window on possible new physics. Accurate theoretical predictions for this process are therefore…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-17 Simone Devoto

We present results with soft-gluon resummation for the associated production of a single top quark and a Higgs boson. We present analytical results for the higher-order soft-gluon corrections and numerical results for the total cross…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-08 Matthew Forslund , Nikolaos Kidonakis

I discuss single top quark production at the Tevatron and the LHC. The cross section, including soft-gluon threshold corrections through NNNLO, is presented for each partonic channel. The higher-order corrections provide significant…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Nikolaos Kidonakis

The scalar partners of top and bottom quarks are expected to be the lightest squarks in supersymmetric theories, with potentially large cross sections at hadron colliders. We present predictions for the production of top and bottom squarks…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-21 Wim Beenakker , Silja Brensing , Michael Krämer , Anna Kulesza , Eric Laenen , Irene Niessen

We study higher-order QCD corrections for the associated production of a top-antitop quark pair and a photon ($t{\bar t}\gamma$ production) in proton-proton collisions. We calculate the approximate NNLO cross section, with second-order…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-01 Nikolaos Kidonakis , Alberto Tonero

We study QCD corrections for the associated production of a single top quark and a photon ($tq\gamma$ production) at hadron colliders. We calculate the NLO cross section at LHC and future collider energies for a variety of kinematical cuts,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-08 Nikolaos Kidonakis , Nodoka Yamanaka

We present theoretical results at approximate NNLO in QCD for top-quark pair-production total cross sections and top-quark differential distributions at the LHC in the SMEFT. In this work we consider effects of new physics parametrized by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-01 Alberto Tonero , Nikolaos Kidonakis

We present a fully differential next-to-next-to-leading order calculation of t-channel single top-quark production and decay at the LHC under narrow-width approximation and neglecting cross-talk between incoming protons. We focus on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-01 Edmond L. Berger , Jun Gao , C. -P. Yuan , Hua Xing Zhu

A calculation of the total cross section for top quark production in hadron-hadron collisions is presented based on an all-orders perturbative resummation of initial-state gluon radiative contributions to the basic quantum chromodynamics…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-02-03 Edmond L. Berger , Harry Contopanagos

We consider QCD corrections to Higgs boson production through gluon--gluon fusion in hadron collisions. We compute the cross section, performing the all-order resummation of multiple soft-gluon emission at next-to-next-to-leading…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Catani , D. de Florian , M. Grazzini , P. Nason

We construct a resummation at partial next-to-next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy for hadronic top-quark pair production near partonic threshold, including simultaneously soft-gluon and Coulomb corrections, and use this result to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-29 Jan Piclum , Christian Schwinn

We calculate next-to-next-to-leading order soft-gluon corrections to top quark total and differential cross sections in hadron colliders. We increase the accuracy of our previous estimates by including additional subleading terms, including…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Nikolaos Kidonakis , Ramona Vogt

We review the theoretical status of squark and gluino hadroproduction and provide numerical predictions for all squark and gluino pair-production processes at the Tevatron and at the LHC, with a particular emphasis on proton-proton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-28 W. Beenakker , S. Brensing , M. Krämer , A. Kulesza , E. Laenen , L. Motyka , I. Niessen

We calculate higher-order soft-gluon corrections for the associated production of a top-antitop quark pair and a Higgs boson ($t{\bar t}H$ production) using resummation in one-particle-inclusive (1PI) kinematics. By adding these corrections…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-23 Nikolaos Kidonakis , Nodoka Yamanaka

An overview of the theoretical status of the top quark and single-jet inclusive production cross sections at the Tevatron is presented. NLO results as well as NNLO-NNLL and higher order threshold expressions derived from resummation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Nikolaos Kidonakis