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We present the resummed predictions for a vector boson pair production at the LHC. We have performed threshold resummation to next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic (NNLL) accuracy, and then matched them to next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-09 Pulak Banerjee , Chinmoy Dey , M. C. Kumar , Vaibhav Pandey

We consider top-anti-top production near threshold in $e^+ e^-$ collisions, resumming Coulomb-enhanced corrections at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO). We also sum potentially large logarithms of the small top quark velocity at the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-06 M. Beneke , A. Signer , V. A. Smirnov

We calculate all main top-quark pair differential distributions at the Tevatron. For the first time Tevatron predictions for this process include all Standard Model corrections through NLO (referred to as complete-NLO) consistently combined…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-12-14 Michał Czakon , David Heymes , Alexander Mitov , Davide Pagani , Ioannis Tsinikos , Marco Zaro

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 construct predictions for top quark pair differential distributions at hadron colliders that combine state-of-the-art NNLO QCD calculations with double resummation at NNLL' accuracy of threshold logarithms arising from soft gluon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-06-07 Michal Czakon , Andrea Ferroglia , David Heymes , Alexander Mitov , Ben D. Pecjak , Darren J. Scott , Xing Wang , Li Lin Yang

The results of phenomenological studies of top-quark pair production in proton-proton collisions are presented. Differential cross sections are calculated in perturbative QCD at approximate next-to-next-to-leading order ${\cal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 Marco Guzzi , Katerina Lipka , Sven-Olaf Moch

In this work we present for the first time predictions for top-quark pair differential distributions at the LHC at NNLO QCD accuracy and including EW corrections. For the latter we include not only contributions of ${\cal O}(\alpha_s^2…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-16 Michal Czakon , David Heymes , Alexander Mitov , Davide Pagani , Ioannis Tsinikos , Marco Zaro

We present a calculation of slepton pair production at the LHC at next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic (NNLL) accuracy, matched to approximate next-to-next-to-leading order (aNNLO) QCD corrections. We collect the relevant analytical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-11-07 J. Fiaschi , M. Klasen , M. Sunder

We present results for the next-to-leading order QCD corrections to the production and semi-leptonic decays of a top quark pair in hadron collisions, retaining all spin correlations. To evaluate the virtual corrections, we employ…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-18 Kirill Melnikov , Markus Schulze

We study the QCD charge asymmetry in t\bar{t} production at the Tevatron. We investigate the role of higher orders in perturbation theory by considering the resummation of potentially large logarithmic corrections that arise near partonic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Leandro G. Almeida , George Sterman , Werner Vogelsang

We compute the Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order (NNLO) QCD corrections to the partonic reaction that dominates top-pair production at the Tevatron. This is the first ever NNLO calculation of an observable with more than two colored partons,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 Peter Baernreuther , Michal Czakon , Alexander Mitov

We present updated predictions for single top-quark production in hadronic collisions. The analysis is based on next-to-leading order QCD calculations. The input parameters are fixed to recent measurements. We compare different PDF sets and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-20 P. Kant , O. M. Kind , T. Kintscher , T. Lohse , T. Martini , S. Mölbitz , P. Rieck , P. Uwer

We compute the QCD corrections to the production of a top quark pair in association with one hard jet at the Tevatron and the LHC, using the method of generalized D-dimensional unitarity. Top quark decays are included at leading order in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Kirill Melnikov , Markus Schulze

Using invariant-mass threshold resummation, we compute the invariant-mass distribution and the total cross section for $t\bar{t}t\bar{t}$ production at the LHC with centre-of-mass energy of 13.6 TeV at NLL' accuracy. This accuracy includes…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-16 Melissa van Beekveld , Anna Kulesza , Michele Lupattelli , Tommaso Saracco

I present approximate N$^3$LO theoretical results for top-antitop pair production, and for single-top production in association with a $W$ boson. The higher-order corrections are from soft-gluon radiation, which is dominant near partonic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-09-21 Nikolaos Kidonakis

We calculate a comprehensive set of spin correlations and differential distributions in top-quark pair production and decay to dilepton final states. This is the first time such a complete study is performed at next-to-next-to leading order…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-11 Michal Czakon , Alexander Mitov , Rene Poncelet

I present calculations of higher-order corrections to top-quark production via three different processes: the production of a top-antitop pair and a $Z$ boson; single-top quark production in the $s$-channel; and top-antitop production with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-17 Nikolaos Kidonakis

We present a comprehensive study of differential distributions for Tevatron top-pair events at the level of stable top quarks. All calculations are performed in NNLO QCD with the help of a fully differential partonic Monte-Carlo and are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-05-25 Michal Czakon , Paul Fiedler , David Heymes , Alexander Mitov

We present an approach to predict exclusive $W^+bW^-\bar{b}$ production at lepton colliders that correctly describes the top-anti-top threshold as well as the continuum region. We incorporate $t\bar{t}$ form factors for the NLL threshold…

If the minimal supersymmetric standard model at scales of around 1 TeV is realized in nature, the total top-squark pair production cross section should be measurable at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. In this work we present precise…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-15 Alessandro Broggio , Andrea Ferroglia , Matthias Neubert , Leonardo Vernazza , Li Lin Yang