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A precise theoretical description of W- and Z-boson production in the resonance region is essential for the correct interpretation of high-precision measurements of the W-boson mass and the effective weak mixing angle. Currently, the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-02-17 Stefan Dittmaier , Alexander Huss , Christian Schwinn

The associated production of Higgs boson with a muon pair, $e^+e^-\to \mu^+\mu^- H$, is one of the golden channels to pin down the properties of the Higgs boson in the prospective Higgs factories exemplified by \textsf{CEPC}. The projected…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-01-30 Wen Chen , Feng Feng , Yu Jia , Wen-Long Sang

We calculate the ${\cal O}(\alpha_{s})$ QCD and ${\cal O}(\alpha_{{\rm ew}})$ electroweak one-loop corrections in the Standard Model framework, to the production of an intermediate Higgs boson associated with $t\bar{t}$ pair via $\gamma…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Chen Hui , Ma Wen-Gan , Zhang Ren-You , Zhou Pei-Jun , Hou Hong-Sheng , Sun Yan-Bin

We have calculated the full one-loop electroweak (EW) and QCD corrections to the third generation scalar-fermion pair production processes $e^+e^- \to \gamma \gamma \to \tilde{f_i}\bar{\tilde{f_i}} (f=t,b,\tau)$ at an electron-positron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Xing Li-Rong , Ma Wen-Gan , Zhang Ren-You , Jiang Yi , Han Liang , Li Gang

We review the salient features of next-to-leading-order QCD and electroweak corrections to the scattering of two and the production of three weak gauge bosons at the Large Hadron Collider. Results for the tower of $O(\alpha_s^m\alpha^n)$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-21 S. Dittmaier

We have examined the evidence for the electroweak radiative corrections in the LEP precision data along with the intriguing possibility that the QED corrections only may be sufficient to fit the data. We find that the situation is very…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-25 Kyungsik Kang , Sin Kyu Kang

Within the framework of nonrelativistic QCD (NRQCD) factorization, we compute the three-loop QCD corrections to the decay constant of $B_c$. We reconstruct the analytical expressions for the three-loop renormalization constant and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-09 Feng Feng , Yu Jia , Zhewen Mo , Jichen Pan , Wen-Long Sang , Jia-Yue Zhang

In this paper, we present a new analysis on the $P$-wave charmonium annihilation into two photons up to next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) QCD corrections by using the principle of maximum conformality (PMC). The conventional perturbative…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-28 Hua Zhou , Qing Yu , Xu-Dong Huang , Xu-Chang Zheng , Xing-Gang Wu

In this article, the electroweak transition form factors of $\Sigma_b\to\Sigma_c$, $\Xi'_b\to\Xi'_c$ and $\Omega_b\to\Omega_c$ are analyzed within the framework of three-point QCD sum rules. In phenomenological side, all possible couplings…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-13 Jie Lu , Guo-Liang Yu , Dian-Yong Chen , Zhi-Gang Wang , Bin Wu

We report a calculation of approximate next-to-next-to-leading-order (N$^2$LO) and next-to-N$^2$LO (N$^3$LO) QCD corrections to associated $tW$ production at the LHC, which constitute the dominant contributions to full perturbative…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-12 Jia-Le Ding , Hai Tao Li , Jian Wang

A key issue in making precise predictions in perturbative QCD is the uncertainty in setting the renormalization scale. If in principle, the entire perturbative series is void of this issue, in practice the perturbative corrections are known…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-10 Leonardo Di Giustino

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 elaborate on a recently suggested effective Lagrangian for charged-current and neutral-current electroweak interactions which in comparison with the standard electroweak theory contains three free parameters $\Delta x, \Delta y$,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 S. Dittmaier , D. Schildknecht , K. Kolodziej , M. Kuroda

We compute mixed QCD-electroweak corrections to the fully-differential production of an on-shell $W$ boson. Decays of $W$ bosons to lepton pairs are included in the leading order approximation. The required two-loop virtual corrections are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-03 Arnd Behring , Federico Buccioni , Fabrizio Caola , Maximillian Delto , Matthieu Jaquier , Kirill Melnikov , Raoul Röntsch

We present the calculation of the so far missing ${\cal O}(\alpha^2\alpha_\mathrm{s})$ corrections to the quantity $\Delta r$, which relates the Fermi constant to the W-boson mass, and enables precision predictions of the latter. While the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-09 Ievgen Dubovyk , Ayres Freitas , Janusz Gluza , Johann Usovitsch

This paper presents a computer code for analyzing electroweak precision data (EWPD) in the framework of the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT), highlights the importance of recent ATLAS and CMS precision measurements, and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-14 Hannes Mildner

In addition to the evaluation of high-order loop contributions, the precision and predictive power of perturbative QCD (pQCD) predictions depends on two important issues: (1) how to achieve a reliable, convergent fixed-order series, and (2)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-01 Jian-Ming Shen , Zhi-Jian Zhou , Sheng-Quan Wang , Jiang Yan , Zhi-Fei Wu , Xing-Gang Wu , Stanley J. Brodsky

Reaching the 1% precision level for W and Z production calculations for the LHC will require a mixture of higher order QCD and electroweak corrections. As a first step toward implementing the combined QED\otimesQCD exponentiation proposed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-01-31 Scott Yost , Valerie Halyo , Miroslav Hejna , B. F. L. Ward

We calculate the complete next-to-leading order QCD corrections to the three-body decay of gluino into top-pair associated with a lightest neutralino in the minimal supersymmetric standard model. We obtain that the LO and NLO QCD corrected…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-08-28 Duan Peng-Fei , Zhang Ren-You , Ma Wen-Gan , Guo Lei , Zhang Yu

The one-loop supersymmetric QCD corrections to the top quark semileptonic decays $t\to b \bar{l} {\nu_l}$ are considered. The corrections are found to reduce the decay width. In the still acceptable parameter space the corrections to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Cong-Feng Qiao , Shou-Hua Zhu