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We consider hadronic production of a Z boson in association with a jet and study one- and two-loop electroweak logarithmic corrections in the region of high Z-boson transverse momentum, p_T >> M_Z, including leading and next-to-leading…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-05 Johann H. Kuhn , A. Kulesza , S. Pozzorini , M. Schulze

We calculate the generalized soft functions at $\mathcal{O}(\alpha_s^2)$ at next-to-leading power accuracy for the Drell-Yan process at threshold. The operator definitions of these objects contain explicit insertions of soft gauge and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-27 Alessandro Broggio , Sebastian Jaskiewicz , Leonardo Vernazza

Using soft-collinear effective theory, the leading-log radiative electroweak corrections are written in a closed and analytical form for the hadronic cross section of Higgs production through vector boson fusion, qq->qqH, one of the most…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-07-30 Fabio Siringo

The cross section for top quark pair production factorizes at small transverse momentum of the heavy quark pair, $q_T$. One of the key ingredients that appears in the factorization formula is the soft function, which mediates soft gluon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-15 Rene Angeles-Martinez , Michal Czakon , Sebastian Sapeta

We review the salient features of next-to-leading-order QCD and electroweak corrections to the scattering of two and the production of three weak gauge bosons at the Large Hadron Collider. Results for the tower of $O(\alpha_s^m\alpha^n)$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-21 S. Dittmaier

The production of W bosons at large transverse momentum at the Tevatron is dominated by soft-gluon corrections. In this talk we present a calculation of these corrections at next-to-next-to-leading order. The corrections enhance the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Nikolaos Kidonakis , Agustin Sabio Vera

Electroweak (EW) triboson production processes with at least one heavy gauge boson are of increasing interest at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) as direct precision probes of one of the least-tested sectors of the Standard Model (SM), the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-18 Huanfeng Cheng , Doreen Wackeroth

The resummation of threshold logarithms for direct photon production cross sections in hadronic collisions is presented. The resummation is based on the factorization properties of the cross section and is formulated at next-to-leading…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Nikolaos Kidonakis , J. F. Owens

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

Previous work on soft-gluon resummation for direct photon production is extended to include additional subleading logarithmic terms through O(alpha alpha_s^3) and some representative comparisons are made to experimental results from the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Nikolaos Kidonakis , J. F. Owens

To match the precision of present and future measurements of W-boson production at hadron colliders, electroweak radiative corrections must be included in the theory predictions. In this paper we consider their effect on the transverse…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Johann H. Kuhn , A. Kulesza , S. Pozzorini , M. Schulze

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 compute the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) soft and virtual QCD corrections for the partonic cross section of colourless-final state processes in hadronic collisions. The results are valid to all orders in the dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-02-28 Daniel de Florian , Javier Mazzitelli

We consider soft gluon emission corrections to the production of a top-antitop pair in association with a Higgs boson at hadron colliders. In particular, we present a soft-gluon resummation formula for this production process and gather all…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-20 Alessandro Broggio , Andrea Ferroglia , Ben D. Pecjak , Adrian Signer , Li Lin Yang

We study the application of the joint resummation to electroweak boson production at hadron colliders. The joint resummation formalism resums both threshold and transverse momentum corrections to the transverse momentum distribution at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Kulesza , G. Sterman , W. Vogelsang

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

We perform threshold resummation of soft gluon corrections to the total cross sections and the invariant mass distributions for production of a top-antitop quark pair associated with a heavy electroweak boson $V = W^+$, $W^-$ or $Z$ in $pp$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-03-27 Anna Kulesza , Leszek Motyka , Daniel Schwartländer , Tomasz Stebel , Vincent Theeuwes

We investigate the transverse momentum resummation for top quark pair production at hadron colliders using the soft-collinear effective theory and the heavy-quark effective theory. We derive the factorization formula for $t\bar{t}$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-10-30 Hai Tao Li , Chong Sheng Li , Ding Yu Shao , Li Lin Yang , Hua Xing Zhu

The first calculation of the next-to-leading-order electroweak corrections to Z-boson + jet hadroproduction including leptonic Z-boson decays is presented, i.e. to the production of a charged lepton--anti-lepton final state in association…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-27 Ansgar Denner , Stefan Dittmaier , Tobias Kasprzik , Alexander Mück

Hard, or high transverse momentum, pion photoproduction can be a tool for probing the parton structure of the beam and target. We estimate the soft contributions to this process, with an eye toward delineating the region where…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 Andrei Afanasev , Carl E. Carlson , Christian Wahlquist