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These proceedings present a search for flavour-changing neutral-current (FCNC) interaction involving the top quark, Higgs boson and either the up or the charm quark, using 140 fb$^{-1}$ of 13 TeV proton--proton collision data from the ATLAS…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2026-02-04 Shayma Wahdan , On behalf of the ATLAS collaboration

This is the user's manual of [email protected]. This package is a practical implementation, based upon the HERWIG event generator, of the recently proposed MC@NLO formalism for matching the next-to-leading order calculation of a QCD process with a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Frixione , B. R. Webber

A Monte Carlo simulator is presented to reproduce data of nucleus-nucleus interactions at high energies. The program is designed in a microscopic point of view, where the cascade approach is applied. Moreover, each nucleon from both the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 N. M. Hassan , N. El-Harby , M. T. Hussein

We present a Monte Carlo event generator specifically developed for the study of hadronic two-photon fusion events in two-photon scattering at electron-positron colliders. The code enables the generation of events with exact leading-order…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-18 Max Lellmann , Igor Danilkin , Achim Denig , Jan Muskalla , Christoph F. Redmer , Xiu-Lei Ren , Marc Vanderhaeghen

We present a Monte-Carlo event generator for simulating chargino pair production at the ILC at next-to-leading order in the electroweak couplings. We consider two approaches of including photon radiation. A strict fixed-order approach…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Tania Robens

A technique for separating top quark production from Standard Model background events is introduced. It is applicable to the channel in which one top quark decays semi-leptonically and its anti-quark decays hadronically into three jets, or…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-01 Gary R. Goldstein , K. Sliwa , R. H. Dalitz

Modern neutrino-nucleus cross section predictions need to incorporate sophisticated nuclear models to achieve greater predictive precision. However, the computational complexity of these advanced models often limits their practicality for…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2025-05-19 Mathias El Baz , Federico Sánchez , Natalie Jachowicz , Kajetan Niewczas , Ashish Kumar Jha , Alexis Nikolakopoulos

We study the one-loop contribution of the effective flavor changing neutral couplings (FCNC) $tcZ$ to the charm quark electric dipole moment. Using the known limits on the top and charm quarks electric dipole moments, we place limits on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-21 M. Mohammadi Najafabadi , N. Tazik

A study of single top quark production via flavor changing neutral current interactions at $tq\gamma$ vertices is performed at future circular hadron electron collider. The signal cross sections for the processes $e^{-}p\to e^{-}W^{\pm}q+X$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-07-28 H. Denizli , A. Senol , A. Yilmaz , I. T. Cakir , H. Karadeniz , O. Cakir

We present the EpIC Monte Carlo event generator for exclusive processes sensitive to generalised parton distributions. EpIC utilises the PARTONS framework, which provides a flexible software architecture and a variety of modelling options…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-28 E. C. Aschenauer , V. Batozskaya , S. Fazio , K. Gates , H. Moutarde , D. Sokhan , H. Spiesberger , P. Sznajder , K. Tezgin

Aspects of top quark physics can be studied at a future Circular Electron-Positron Collider (CEPC). In particular, Flavor-Changing Neutral Current interactions (FCNC) of the top quark can be studied even with a center-of-mass energy from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-02-10 M. A. Arroyo-Ureña , J. Lorenzo Díaz-Cruz , R. Gaitán , J. H. Montes de Oca , T. A. Valencia-Pérez

We present a new Monte Carlo event generator for the hadronic production of four top quarks in the POWHEG BOX framework. Besides the dominant next-to-leading order QCD corrections at $\mathcal{O}(\alpha_s^5)$ we also include all subleading…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-06 Tomáš Ježo , Manfred Kraus

An overview of searches for top quark flavour changing neutral currents (FCNC) from the CDF, D0, ATLAS and CMS collaborations is presented. The FCNC interactions of top quarks are probed through the anomalous decays and production channels.…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-15 Reza Goldouzian

We calculated the next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD corrections to the cross sections for direct top quark productions induced by model--independent flavour changing neutral current couplings at hadron colliders. The NLO results increase the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Jian Jun Liu , Chong Sheng Li , Li Lin Yang , Li Gang Jin

This letter documents a search for flavour-changing neutral currents (FCNCs), which are strongly suppressed in the Standard Model, in events with a photon and a top quark with the ATLAS detector. The analysis uses data collected in $pp$…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-11-14 ATLAS Collaboration

We present an extension of the Monte Carlo Event Generator Whizard which includes chargino production at the ILC at NLO. We include photons using both a fixed order and a resummation approach. In the latter, leading higher order corrections…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-02-16 Tania Robens

We present a study to examine the sensitivity of a future $e^{-} e^{+}$ collider to the anomalous top flavour-changing neutral current (FCNC) to the gluon. To separate signal from background a multivariate analysis is performed on top-quark…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2014-12-31 Hoda Hesari , Hamzeh Khanpour , Morteza Khatiri Yanehsari , Mojtaba Mohammadi Najafabadi

We discuss the production and the decay of top quark through flavor-changing neutral current (FCNC) interaction at future linear colliders. We first discuss the theoretical predictions of top quark FCNC decays into $qH$ and $qZ$ within a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-01 Adil Jueid , Shinya Kanemura

A Monte Carlo event generator has been developed assuming thermal production of hadrons. The system under consideration is sampled grand canonically in the Boltzmann approximation. A re-weighting scheme is then introduced to account for…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-12-14 M. Hauer , S. Wheaton

In this work we calculate the effects of the electroweak flavour changing neutral currents dimension six effective operators on single top production at the LHC. These results are then combined with previous ones we have obtained for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-01-21 R. A. Coimbra , P. M. Ferreira , R. B. Guedes , O. Oliveira , A. Onofre , R. Santos , Miguel Won