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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 theoretical results at approximate NNLO from NNLL resummation for top quark production at the LHC and the Tevatron, including new results at 8 TeV LHC energy. Total cross sections are shown for t tbar production, for single top…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-05-16 Nikolaos Kidonakis

We present theoretical calculations of higher-order QCD and electroweak corrections for the associated production of a top-antitop quark pair and a $W$ boson ($t{\bar t}W$ production) at LHC energies. We show predictions for cross sections…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-25 Nikolaos Kidonakis , Chris Foster

We study the production of a Higgs boson in association to a top-antitop pair at the Large Hadron Collider. We show how precise predictions for the differential distributions with respect to the transverse momentum of the Higgs boson, to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-10-25 Alessandro Broggio , Andrea Ferroglia , Miguel C. N. Fiolhais , Antonio Onofre

We consider the production of a Standard-Model (SM) Higgs boson in gluon fusion in hadronic collisions and compute the QCD corrections up to next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) and match them to parton showers (NNLO+PS). The complete…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-22 Marco Niggetiedt , Marius Wiesemann

Using non-relativistic effective theories, new next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) QCD corrections to the total $t\bar t$ production cross section at the Linear Collider have been calculated recently. In this article the NNLO calculations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. H. Hoang , M. Beneke , K. Melnikov , T. Nagano , A. Ota , A. A. Penin , A. A. Pivovarov , A. Signer , V. A. Smirnov , Y. Sumino , T. Teubner , O. Yakovlev , A. Yelkhovsky

The production of a top-antitop quark pair in association with a $W$ boson ($t\bar tW$) is one of the heaviest signatures currently probed at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Since the first observation reported in 2015 the corresponding…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-08 Luca Buonocore , Simone Devoto , Massimiliano Grazzini , Stefan Kallweit , Javier Mazzitelli , Luca Rottoli , Chiara Savoini

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 present a fully-differential and high-precision calculation of top-quark pair-production and decay at the LHC, providing predictions for observables constructed from top-quark leptonic and $b$-flavoured jet final states. The calculation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-09-20 Jun Gao , Andrew S. Papanastasiou

We analyse the production of a Higgs boson in association with a top--antitop-quark pair in the Standard Model at the LHC. Considering the final state consisting of four b jets, two jets, one identified charged lepton and missing energy, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-12-01 Ansgar Denner , Robert Feger , Andreas Scharf

We calculate the cross section for the production of a Z boson in association with heavy quarks. We suggest that this cross section can be measured using an inclusive heavy-quark tagging technique. This could be used as a feasibility study…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-01-25 Fabio Maltoni , Thomas McElmurry , Scott Willenbrock

We describe the calculation of inclusive Higgs boson production at hadronic colliders at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in perturbative quantum chromodynamics. We have used the technique developed in reference [4]. Our results agree…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 V. Ravindran , J. Smith , W. L. van Neerven

We consider Higgs boson production at hadron colliders in the gluon fusion channel and compute higher order terms in the regularization parameter $\epsilon$. In particular, the next-to-next-to-leading order cross section is evaluated…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-12 Maik Höschele , Jens Hoff , Alexey Pak , Matthias Steinhauser , Takahiro Ueda

A calculation of the total cross section for top quark production in hadron-hadron collisions is presented based on an all-orders perturbative resummation of initial-state gluon radiative contributions to the basic quantum chromodynamics…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-02-03 Edmond L. Berger , Harry Contopanagos

We consider Higgs boson production through gluon--gluon fusion in hadron collisions. We present a numerical program that computes the cross section up to NNLO in QCD perturbation theory. The program allows the user to apply arbitrary cuts…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-06-23 M. Grazzini

We present the next-to-leading-order (NLO) QCD corrections to the inclusive total cross section for the production of a Higgs boson in association with a top anti-top quark pair within the Standard Model at the Tevatron and the LHC.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Dawson , L. H. Orr , L. Reina , D. Wackeroth

In this work we seek to compute precisely the rate at which these Higgs particles are produced as a function of the transverse momentum and the rapidity at the Large Hadron Collider. This calculation is carried out to next leading order in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Christopher J. Glosser

We present predictions for the total cross section for the production of a charged Higgs boson in the intermediate-mass range ($m_{H^{\pm}}\sim m_t$) at the LHC, focusing on a type-II two-Higgs-doublet model. Results are obtained at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-06-29 Celine Degrande , Rikkert Frederix , Valentin Hirschi , Maria Ubiali , Marius Wiesemann , Marco Zaro

The production of a W boson and two jets, at least one of which contains a b quark, is a principal background to single-top production, Higgs production, and signals of new physics at hadron colliders. We present a next-to-leading-order…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Campbell , R. K. Ellis , F. Maltoni , S. Willenbrock

We describe updated calculations of $Q \bar Q$ production in $pp$ and $\pi^- p$ interactions. We compare these results to total cross section data and discuss how the baseline cross sections extrapolate to heavy ion collider energies. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Vogt