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We study a few basic photon- and lepton-initiated processes at the LHC which can be computed using the recently developed photon and lepton parton densities. First, we consider the production of a massive scalar particle initiated by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-05 Luca Buonocore , Paolo Nason , Francesco Tramontano , Giulia Zanderighi

We present a calculation of the next-to-leading order QCD corrections to slepton pair production in association with a jet at the LHC together with their implementation in the POWHEG BOX. For the simulation of parton-shower effects and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-23 Barbara Jager , Andreas von Manteuffel , Stephan Thier

In this short review we discuss two implementations of the charged Higgs boson production process in association with a top quark in Monte Carlo event generators at next-to-leading order in QCD. We introduce the MC@NLO and the POWHEG method…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-12-19 K. Kovarik

We present a next-to-leading order calculation of heavy flavour production in hadronic collisions that can be interfaced to shower Monte Carlo programs. The calculation is performed in the context of the POWHEG method. It is suitable for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-01-13 Stefano Frixione , Paolo Nason , Giovanni Ridolfi

We study a large-$p_T$ three-photon production in proton-proton collisions at the LHC. We use the leading order (LO) approximation of the parton Reggeization approach consistently merged with the next-to-leading order corrections originated…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-20 Anton Karpishkov , Vladimir Saleev

We present the complete next-to-leading order calculation of isolated prompt photon production in association with a jet in deep-inelastic scattering. The calculation involves, direct, resolved and fragmentation contributions. It is shown…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-23 P. Aurenche , M. Fontannaz

We present an implementation of the next-to-leading order dijet production process in hadronic collisions in the framework of POWHEG, which is a method to implement NLO calculations within a shower Monte Carlo context. In constructing the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-20 Simone Alioli , Keith Hamilton , Paolo Nason , Carlo Oleari , Emanuele Re

We consider the prompt photon production at modern high energy colliders in the framework of $k_T-$factorization approach. We compare our theoretical predictions with recent experimental data at HERA and Tevatron, empahasizing the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. V. Lipatov , N. P. Zotov

We present a new implementation of photoproduction processes in e+e- and ep collisions into Pythia 8 Monte-Carlo event-generator. In particular we discuss how the parton showers and multiparton interactions are generated with a resolved…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-09-01 Ilkka Helenius

The production of photons accompanied by jets in large-Q2 deep inelastic ep scattering is calculated in next-to-leading order. We describe how to consistently include contributions from quark-to-photon fragmentation and give numerical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Gehrmann-De Ridder , G. Kramer , H. Spiesberger

We discuss the energy loss effects on single prompt photon production in heavy-ion collisions at RHIC and LHC energy. The production of correlated photon pairs at the LHC is also considered.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Francois Arleo

Colour coherence in hard photoproduction is considered using the Monte Carlo event generators PYTHIA and HERWIG. Significant effects in the parton shower are found using multijet observables for direct and resolved photon induced reactions.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Lebedev , L. Sinclair , E. Strickland , J. Vazdik

A study of prompt photon plus associated jet production is performed at next-to-leading order (O($\alpha\alpha_s^2$)) in QCD at $\sqrt{S}=200-500$ GeV, appropriate for the RHIC polarized $\vec{p}\vec{p}$ collider experiment. Momentum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 Sanghyeon Chang , Claudio Coriano , L. E. Gordon

We discuss the production of photon pairs in hadronic collisions, from fixed target to LHC energies. The study which follows is based on a QCD calculation at full next-to-leading order accuracy, including single and double fragmentation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-13 T. Binoth , J. Ph. Guillet , E. Pilon , M. Werlen

We present a full next-to-leading order code to calculate the photoproduction of prompt photons. The code is a general purpose program of partonic event generator type with large flexibility. We study the possibility to constrain the photon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-13 M. Fontannaz , J. Ph. Guillet , G. Heinrich

We present a calculation of the next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD corrections to gluon-induced electroweak gauge boson pair production, $gg \to ZZ$ and $gg \to W^+W^-$, matched to the PYTHIA8 parton shower in the POWHEG approach. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-18 Simone Alioli , Silvia Ferrario Ravasio , Jonas M. Lindert , Raoul Röntsch

Results are presented on the production of isolated prompt photons in photoproduction (virtuality Q^2 < 1 GeV^2) and in deep inelastic scattering (Q^2 > 35 GeV^2). The results are reasonably well described by pQCD calculations in next to…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Rachid Lemrani

We present a calculation of the next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD corrections to the hadroproduction process $gg\to ZZ \to e^+e^- \mu^+ \mu^-$, matched to the parton shower in the POWHEG framework. We take advantage of the POWHEG BOX tool for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-03-08 Simone Alioli , Fabrizio Caola , Gionata Luisoni , Raul Röntsch

We compute the next-to-leading order corrections in $\alpha_s$ to prompt diphoton production in association with a jet at hadron colliders. We use a next-to-leading order general-purpose partonic Monte Carlo event generator that allows the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Vittorio Del Duca , Fabio Maltoni , Zoltan Nagy , Zoltan Trocsanyi

In this paper we deal with radiation from heavy quarks in the context of next-to-leading order calculations matched to parton shower generators. A new algorithm for radiation from massive quarks is presented that has considerable advantages…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-04-04 L. Buonocore , P. Nason , F. Tramontano