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We examine the effect of higher-order QCD corrections on the four top-quark production cross section in the $3$ lepton decay channel. Top-quark and $W$ gauge-boson decays are included at next-to-leading order in perturbative QCD. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-10 Nikolaos Dimitrakopoulos , Malgorzata Worek

In this paper we calculate the next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD $[{\cal O}(\alpha_s \alpha^3)]$ and electroweak (EW) $[{\cal O}(\alpha^4)]$ corrections to the $WWW$ production at the LHC and deal with the subsequent leptonic decays from $W$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-07-13 Shen Yong-Bai , Zhang Ren-You , Ma Wen-Gan , Li Xiao-Zhou , Guo Lei

Higgs boson production in association with a hard central photon and two forward tagging jets is expected to provide valuable information on Higgs boson couplings in a range where it is difficult to disentangle weak-boson fusion processes…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-21 Ken Arnold , Terrance Figy , Barbara Jager , Dieter Zeppenfeld

The $J/\psi+Z^0$ associated production at the LHC is an important process in investigating the color-octet mechanism of non-relativistic QCD in describing the processes involving heavy quarkonium. We calculate the next-to-leading order…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-11-20 Song Mao , Ma Wen-Gan , Li Gang , Zhang Ren-You , Guo Lei

We study the production of W bosons at large transverse momentum in pp collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). We calculate the complete next-to-leading order (NLO) corrections to the differential cross section. We find that the NLO…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Richard J. Gonsalves , Nikolaos Kidonakis , Agustin Sabio Vera

The $B_c$ meson pair, including pairs of both pseudoscalar states and vector states, productions in high energy photon-photon interaction are investigated at the next-to-leading order (NLO) accuracy in the nonrelativistic quantum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-22 Zi-Qiang Chen , Hao Yang , Cong-Feng Qiao

The decay width of $Z^0$ to $B_c$ meson is evaluated at the next-to-leading order(NLO) accuracy in strong interaction. Numerical calculation shows that the NLO correction to this process is remarkable. The quantum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-28 Cong-Feng Qiao , Li-Ping Sun , Rui-Lin Zhu

We study the phenomenological impact of the interaction of spin-2 fields with those of the Standard Model in a model independent framework up to next-to-next-to-leading order in perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics. We use the invariant mass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-10-30 Pulak Banerjee , Prasanna K. Dhani , M. C. Kumar , Prakash Mathews , V. Ravindran

We report on the calculation of the next-to-leading order QCD corrections to the production of top--anti-top quark pairs in association with a hard jet at the Tevatron and at the LHC. We present results for the t tbar + jet cross section…

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

We compute next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD corrections to the production of two massive electroweak bosons in gluon fusion. We consider both the prompt production process $gg \to VV$ and the production mediated by an exchange of an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-24 Fabrizio Caola , Matthew Dowling , Kirill Melnikov , Raoul Röntsch , Lorenzo Tancredi

We study the QCD corrections at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) to the cross section for the hadronic pair-production of top quarks. We present new results in the high-energy limit using the well-known framework of k_t-factorization.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-04 S. Moch , P. Uwer , A. Vogt

We compute the next-to-leading order QCD corrections to the ``direct'' part of the spin-dependent cross section for hadron-pair photoproduction. The calculation is performed using largely analytical methods. We present a brief…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Christof Hendlmeier , Andreas Schafer , Marco Stratmann

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

We present a next-to-leading-order QCD calculation for e+\nu e\mu+\nu\mu jj production in vector-boson fusion, i.e. the scattering of two positively charged W bosons at the LHC. We include the complete set of electroweak leading-order…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 Ansgar Denner , Lucia Hosekova , Stefan Kallweit

If the lighter top squark has no kinematically allowed two-body decays that conserve flavor, then it will live long enough to form hadronic bound states. The observation of the diphoton decays of stoponium could then provide a uniquely…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-29 James E. Younkin , Stephen P. Martin

In this proceedings we briefly report on the state-of-the-art NLO QCD computation for the $pp\to t\bar{t}\gamma$ process in the di-lepton channel. We describe higher-order corrections to the $e^+\nu_e \, \mu^- \bar{\nu}_\mu \,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-20 Malgorzata Worek

The associated production of a Higgs boson with a top-antitop quark pair is a crucial process at the LHC since it allows for a direct measurement of the top-quark Yukawa coupling. We present the computation of the radiative corrections to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-29 Stefano Catani , Simone Devoto , Massimiliano Grazzini , Stefan Kallweit , Javier Mazzitelli , Chiara Savoini

We investigate the di-Higgs events through $Z_H$-pair production at the CERN Large Hadron Collider including the pure next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD correction and the $gg$-fusion contribution in the framework of the littlest Higgs model…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-09-24 Chen Liang-Wen , Zhang Ren-You , Ma Wen-Gan , Li Wei-Hua , Duan Peng-Fei , Guo Lei

The tri-boson production is one of the key processes for the study of quartic gauge couplings. Next-to-leading order (NLO) corrections are mandatory to reduce theoretical uncertainties. In this study, the most up-to-date predictions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-10-24 Dao Thi Nhung , Le Duc Ninh , Marcus M. Weber

We consider the production at the LHC of exotic composite leptons of charge Q=+2e. Such states are allowed in composite models which contain extended isospin multiplets (Iw=1 and Iw=3/2). These doubly charged leptons couple with Standard…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-05-25 S. Biondini , O. Panella , G. Pancheri , Y. N. Srivastava , L. Fanò