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We present theoretical results for the associated production of a single top quark and a $Z$ boson ($tqZ$ production) at LHC energies. We calculate higher-order corrections from soft-gluon emission for this process. We compute the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-19 Nikolaos Kidonakis , Nodoka Yamanaka

I present a calculation of next-to-next-to-next-to-leading-order (NNNLO) soft-gluon corrections for differential distributions in top-antitop pair production in hadronic collisions. Approximate NNNLO (aNNNLO) results are obtained from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-05 Nikolaos Kidonakis

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

I present calculations of approximate corrections from NNLL soft-gluon resummation for total and differential cross sections in top-antitop pair production and single-top production in hadronic collisions. I show that soft-gluon corrections…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-21 Nikolaos Kidonakis

I present a calculation of approximate N$^3$LO corrections from NNLL soft-gluon resummation for differential distributions in top-antitop pair production in hadronic collisions. Soft-gluon corrections are the dominant contribution to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-21 Nikolaos Kidonakis

We compute the total top-quark pair production cross section at the Tevatron and LHC based on approximate NNLO results, and on the summation of threshold logarithms and Coulomb enhancements to all orders with next-to-next-to-leading…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-11-14 M. Beneke , P. Falgari , S. Klein , C. Schwinn

We present updated predictions for the total production cross section of top-quark pairs at the Tevatron and at the LHC, and, at the LHC, of heavy-quark pairs with mass in the range 0.5-2 TeV. For t\bar{t} production at the LHC we also…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-05-08 Matteo Cacciari , Stefano Frixione , Michelangelo L. Mangano , Paolo Nason , Giovanni Ridolfi

I present results for the top quark rapidity distribution at LHC and Tevatron energies, including higher-order corrections from threshold resummation. The next-to-next-to-leading-order (NNLO) soft-gluon corrections at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-08-08 Nikolaos Kidonakis

I present recent NNLO-NNLL results for top quark hadroproduction at the Tevatron. The total cross section as well as transverse momentum and rapidity distributions are shown.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Nikolaos Kidonakis

I present approximate next-to-next-to-leading-order (aNNLO) total and differential cross sections for charged Higgs production in association with a top quark at LHC energies. The aNNLO results for the process $bg \rightarrow tH^-$ are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-07-13 Nikolaos Kidonakis

I present the next-to-next-to-leading-logarithm (NNLL) resummation of soft and collinear gluon corrections to single top quark production in the s channel. Attaining NNLL accuracy involves the calculation of the two-loop soft anomalous…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-14 Nikolaos Kidonakis

I present a brief theoretical update on top quark pair production at the Tevatron and give values of the NNLO-NNNLL cross section for both m_t=175 and 178 GeV. I then present a calculation of the cross section for charged Higgs production…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-21 Nikolaos Kidonakis

An overview of the theoretical status of the top quark and single-jet inclusive production cross sections at the Tevatron is presented. NLO results as well as NNLO-NNLL and higher order threshold expressions derived from resummation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Nikolaos Kidonakis

I present higher-order results, based on NNLL resummation, for differential transverse momentum and rapidity distributions in processes involving top quarks. In particular results are presented for top-pair production and for single-top…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-21 Nikolaos Kidonakis

I present results for top-quark double-differential distributions in transverse momentum and rapidity. Higher-order soft-gluon corrections from NNLL resummation are calculated through N$^3$LO. The corrections are large and they reduce…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-15 Nikolaos Kidonakis

We discuss soft-gluon resummation for the associated production of a single top quark and a Higgs boson ($tqH$ production) in single-particle-inclusive (1PI) kinematics. We present analytical results for the higher-order corrections and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-01 Matthew Forslund , Nikolaos Kidonakis

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

I present results for high-order corrections from threshold resummation to cross sections and differential distributions in top-antitop pair production and in single-top production. I show aN$^3$LO results for the total $t{\bar t}$ cross…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-28 Nikolaos Kidonakis

I discuss single top quark production at the Tevatron and the LHC. The cross section, including soft-gluon threshold corrections through NNNLO, is presented for each partonic channel. The higher-order corrections provide significant…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Nikolaos Kidonakis

We present the first complete next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) QCD predictions for differential distributions in the top-quark pair production process at the LHC. Our results are derived from a fully differential partonic Monte Carlo…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-17 Michal Czakon , David Heymes , Alexander Mitov