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We present a complete next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD calculation to a heavy resonance production and decay into a top quark pair at the LHC, where the resonance could be either a Randall-Sundrum (RS) Kaluza-Klein (KK) graviton $G$ or an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-08-16 Jun Gao , Chong Sheng Li , Bo Hua Li , C. -P. Yuan , Hua Xing Zhu

We investigate the QCD next-to-leading order (NLO) corrections to the production of a pair of fermionic dark matter particles associated with a W boson production through a mediator which couples to standard model particles via either a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 Song Mao , Li Gang , Ma Wen-Gan , Zhang Ren-You , Guo Jian-You

Measuring precisely top-pair-associated processes at hadron colliders will become possible with the upcoming LHC running stages. The increased data statistics will especially enable differential measurements leading to an improved…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-07 Ansgar Denner , Daniele Lombardi , Giovanni Pelliccioli

We consider the production of Wgamma and Zgamma pairs at the LHC, and report on the fully differential computation of next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) corrections in QCD perturbation theory. The calculation includes leptonic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-01-26 Massimiliano Grazzini , Stefan Kallweit , Dirk Rathlev

The production of two isolated photons in high-energy hadron collisions poses a challenge to perturbative QCD because of large corrections through next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO). We present novel next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-15 Michal Czakon , Felix Eschment , Terry Generet , Rene Poncelet

The first results on next-to-leading order QCD corrections to production of two $Z$ bosons in hadronic collisions in the extra dimension model of Randall and Sundrum are presented. Various kinematical distributions are obtained to order…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Neelima Agarwal , V. Ravindran , Vivek Kumar Tiwari , Anurag Tripathi

In this paper we present a next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) calculation of the process $pp\rightarrow \gamma\gamma$ that we have implemented into the parton level Monte Carlo code MCFM. We do not find agreement with the previous…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-15 John M. Campbell , R. Keith Ellis , Ye Li , Ciaran Williams

In this work we calculate for the first time the next-to-next-to leading order (NNLO) QCD corrections to identified hadron production at hadron colliders. The inclusion of the NNLO correction has an important impact on all observables…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-23 Michał Czakon , Terry Generet , Alexander Mitov , Rene Poncelet

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

A search for excited leptons is carried out with the CMS detector at the LHC, using 36 inverse picobarns of pp collision data recorded at sqrt(s) = 7 TeV. The search is performed for associated production of a lepton and an oppositely…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-03-19 CMS Collaboration

In this paper we present the first study of the impact of the $\mathcal{O}(\alpha)$ EW correction to the $pp \to ZZ \gamma+X$ process at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The subsequent $Z$-boson leptonic decays are considered at the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-02 Wang Yong , Zhang Ren-You , Ma Wen-Gan , Li Xiao-Zhou , Wang Shao-Ming , Bi Huan-Yu

We study the impact of anomalous gauge boson and fermion couplings on the production of $W^+W^-$ pairs at the LHC. Helicity amplitudes are presented separately to demonstrate the sources of new physics contributions and the impact of QCD…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-10-18 Julien Baglio , Sally Dawson , Ian M. Lewis

Crucial information on the coupling of the Higgs boson to bottom quarks is expected from Higgs production in association with a forward tagging jet at a future high-energy lepton-proton collider. In order to control the theoretical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-05-28 B. Jager

We report on the calculation of $W^\pm Zjj$ production with leptonic decays at hadron-hadron colliders at next-to-leading order in QCD. These processes are important both to test the quartic gauge couplings of the Standard Model and because…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-08-08 Francisco Campanario , Matthias Kerner , Le Duc Ninh , Dieter Zeppenfeld

We present a calculation of the next-to-leading-order QCD and electroweak corrections to WWW production with leptonically decaying $\mathrm{W}$ bosons at the LHC, fully taking into account off-shell contributions, intermediary resonances,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-03-18 Stefan Dittmaier , Gernot Knippen , Christopher Schwan

The production of top-quark pairs that subsequently decay hadronically and leptonically (lepton+jets channel) is one of the key processes for the study of top-quark properties at the LHC. In this article, NLO QCD corrections of order…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-03-14 Ansgar Denner , Mathieu Pellen

We study the impact of $q \bar q' W$ and $q \bar q' WH$ interactions, originating from dimension-six operators of the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT), on the Higgs boson associated production $pp \to W^+H$ at the LHC. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-19 Marco Bonetti , Robert V. Harlander , Dmitrii Korneev , Ming-Ming Long , Kirill Melnikov , Raoul Röntsch , Davide Maria Tagliabue

We evaluate the cross sections for new heavy fermion production at three Large Hadron Collider energies accurate to next-to-leading order in perturbative quantum chromodynamics. We treat the cases of pair production of heavy quarks via…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-13 Edmond L. Berger , Qing-Hong Cao

In this paper we study the Single Top and W boson associated photoproduction via the main reaction $\rm pp\rightarrow p\gamma p\rightarrow pW^{\pm}t+Y$ at the 14 TeV Large Hadron Collider (LHC) up to next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD level…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-22 Hao Sun , Wei Liu , Xiao-Juan Wang , Ya-Jin Zhou , Hong-Sheng Hou

We present numerical results for the production of a $W^+W^-$ pair in association with a jet at the LHC in QCD at next-to-leading order (NLO). We include effects of the decay of the massive vector bosons into leptons with spin correlations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-04-17 John M. Campbell , R. Keith Ellis , G. Zanderighi