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We study the production of a top-quark pair in association with one and two vector bosons, $t \bar t V$ and $t \bar t VV$ with $V=\gamma, Z, W^\pm$, at the LHC. We provide predictions at next-to-leading order in QCD for total cross sections…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-05 Fabio Maltoni , Davide Pagani , Ioannis Tsinikos

NNLO QCD corrections to the production and decay of top-quark pairs allow performing precision phenomenology in inclusive and fiducial phase spaces. State-of-the-art predictions for top-quark pair production and their comparison to recent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-13 Rene Poncelet

QCD corrections to inclusive Higgs boson production at the LHC are evaluated at next-to-next-to leading order. By performing asymptotic expansion of the cross section near the limit of infinitely heavy top quark we obtained a few first top…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-05-18 Alexey Pak , Mikhail Rogal , Matthias Steinhauser

An overview of the recent measurements of the top antitop quark pair production cross section in proton antiproton collisions at \sqrt{s}=1.96 TeV in lepton + jets and dilepton final states is presented. These measurements are based on 1 --…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-15 V. Shary

I present a calculation of higher-order radiative corrections to charged Higgs production in association with a top quark via the process bg -> tH-. Results for charged Higgs production at the LHC are presented, including the dependence of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-04-25 Nikolaos Kidonakis

We present a computation of the cross section for inclusive Higgs production in gluon-gluon fusion for finite values of the top mass in perturbative QCD to all orders in the limit of high partonic center-of-mass energy. We show that at NLO…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Simone Marzani , Richard D. Ball , Vittorio Del Duca , Stefano Forte , Alessandro Vicini

We present theoretical predictions for top-quark total cross sections and for differential distributions in top-quark transverse momentum and rapidity. Third-order soft gluon corrections are added to the complete NNLO quantities to provide…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-14 Nikolaos Kidonakis , Marco Guzzi , Alberto Tonero

We present the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) corrections to the total cross section for (pseudo-) scalar Higgs boson production using an alternative method than those used in previous calculations. All QCD partonic subprocesses have…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-05-05 V. Ravindran , J. Smith , W. L. van Neerven

Higgs-pair production via gluon fusion is the dominant production mechanism of Higgs-boson pairs at hadron colliders. In this work, we present details of our numerical determination of the full next-to-leading-order (NLO) QCD corrections to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-01 J. Baglio , F. Campanario , S. Glaus , M. M. Muhlleitner , J. Ronca , M. Spira , J. Streicher

We discuss the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) corrections to the total cross section for (pseudo-) scalar Higgs boson production. The computation is carried out in the effective Lagrangian approach which emerges from the standard…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 V. Ravindran , J. Smith , W. L. van Neerven

We present updated inclusive cross sections for electroweak Higgs boson pair production for energies of relevance to the LHC and High-Luminosity phase of the LHC. The cross sections are presented at N$^3$LO QCD+NLO EW for vector-boson…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-04 Ramona Gröber , Alexander Karlberg , Mathieu Pellen , Gioia Sacchi , Michael Spira

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

We present the calculation of QCD radiative corrections to heavy-quark production at NNLO. The calculation is implemented in an updated version of \textsc{Matrix}, which allows us to obtain multidifferential predictions for stable top…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-20 Simone Devoto

Cross section measurements of top quark production in association with a vector boson in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=13\,\mathrm{TeV}$ at the CERN LHC provide an important probe of the electroweak top quark couplings. In this…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2022-01-03 Joscha Knolle

We study the QCD corrections at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) to the cross section for the hadronic pair-production of top quarks. We present new results in the high-energy limit using the well-known framework of k_t-factorization.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-04 S. Moch , P. Uwer , A. Vogt

Recent measurements of top quark pair and single top production are presented. The results include inclusive cross sections as well as studies of differential distributions. Evidence for single top quark production in association with a…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-15 Andreas B. Meyer

We review the current status of the cross sections measurement of the top-quark at the LHC and at the Tevatron. Total production cross sections, studies using single top quark events and differential $\rm{t}\bar{\rm t}$ cross sections are…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2014-09-26 Mara Senghi Soares

We present the calculation of scalar and pseudoscalar Higgs production in association with a top-antitop pair to the next-to-leading order (NLO) accuracy in QCD, interfaced with parton showers according to the MC@NLO formalism. We apply our…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-06 Rikkert Frederix , Stefano Frixione , Valentin Hirschi , Fabio Maltoni , Roberto Pittau , Paolo Torrielli

For very large values of $\tan\beta$, charged Higgs boson pair production at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) from the scattering of two bottom quarks can proceed dominantly. We investigated the cross sections of charged Higgs boson pair…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Hou Hong-Sheng , Ma Wen-Gan , Zhang Ren-You , Jiang Yi , Han Liang , Xing Li-Rong

We discuss the calculation of charged Higgs boson production in association with top quark in the MC@NLO framework for combining NLO matrix elements with a parton shower. The process is defined in a model independent manner for wide…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 C. Weydert , S. Frixione , M. Herquet , M. Klasen , E. Laenen , T. Plehn , G. Stavenga , C. D. White