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We study soft-gluon corrections for the associated production of a single top quark and a $Z$ boson ($tqZ$ production) at hadron colliders. We find that the radiative corrections are dominated by soft-gluon emission. We calculate the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-21 Nikolaos Kidonakis , Nodoka Yamanaka

I present results for two-loop soft anomalous dimensions for heavy quark production which control soft-gluon resummation at next-to-next-to-leading-logarithm (NNLL) accuracy. I derive an explicit expression for the exact result and study it…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-08 Nikolaos Kidonakis

We calculate higher-order soft-gluon corrections for the associated production of a top-antitop quark pair and a Higgs boson ($t{\bar t}H$ production) using resummation in one-particle-inclusive (1PI) kinematics. By adding these corrections…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-23 Nikolaos Kidonakis , Nodoka Yamanaka

I present the latest results on the theoretical cross section for top-antitop pair production as well as for single top production at the Tevatron and the LHC. The calculations include higher-order soft-gluon corrections which are dominant…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-02 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

I present the latest calculations of total and differential cross sections for top-antitop pair production and single top quark production via all main partonic channels. Higher-order corrections from the resummation of soft gluons are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-04-20 Nikolaos Kidonakis

We discuss the heavy quark production cross section near partonic threshold in hadronic collisions, including the resummation of leading and next-to-leading logarithms arising from soft gluon emission. We show how to handle the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Nikolaos Kidonakis , Ramona Vogt

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

We perform threshold resummation of soft gluon corrections to the total cross sections and the invariant mass distributions for production of a top-antitop quark pair associated with a heavy electroweak boson $V = W^+$, $W^-$ or $Z$ in $pp$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-03-27 Anna Kulesza , Leszek Motyka , Daniel Schwartländer , Tomasz Stebel , Vincent Theeuwes

We consider QCD corrections to Higgs boson production through gluon--gluon fusion in hadron collisions. We compute the cross section, performing the all-order resummation of multiple soft-gluon emission at next-to-next-to-leading…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Catani , D. de Florian , M. Grazzini , P. Nason

I present theoretical results for the top quark pair total cross section, and for the top quark transverse momentum and rapidity distributions at Tevatron and LHC energies. I also present results for single top quark production in the t-…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-16 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

We present calculations of higher-order QCD and electroweak (EW) corrections to the associated production of a top-antitop quark pair and a $Z$ boson, i.e. $t{\bar t}Z$ production, in proton collisions. We find that the contributions from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-21 Nikolaos Kidonakis , Chris Foster

I present theoretical results through three loops and N$^3$LO for soft-gluon corrections in a variety of processes involving top-quark production. In particular, I present results for total cross sections and differential distributions in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-12 Nikolaos Kidonakis

I present the resummation of collinear and soft gluon corrections to single top quark production in the t channel at next-to-next-to-leading logarithm (NNLL) accuracy using two-loop soft anomalous dimensions. The expansion of the resummed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-05-25 Nikolaos Kidonakis

We discuss cross sections for $tW$ production in proton-proton collisions at the LHC and at higher-energy colliders with energies of up to 100 TeV. We find that, remarkably, the soft-gluon corrections are numerically dominant even at very…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-16 Nikolaos Kidonakis , Nodoka Yamanaka

I present new results and updates for total cross sections and differential distributions in top-antitop pair and single-top production. Soft-gluon corrections are added to exact fixed-order results to provide the best predictions at…

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

I present high-order calculations for single-top production in the Standard Model and in models with anomalous top-quark couplings. Theoretical results are presented for total cross sections and top-quark transverse momentum and rapidity…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-10 Nikolaos Kidonakis

We calculate next-to-next-to-leading order soft-gluon corrections to top quark total and differential cross sections in hadron colliders. We increase the accuracy of our previous estimates by including additional subleading terms, including…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Nikolaos Kidonakis , Ramona Vogt

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