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The Drell-Yan production of charged lepton pairs is one of the key processes measured at hadron colliders. The QCD corrections to the cross section are known to order $\alpha_s^2$ and electroweak corrections are known to order $\alpha$. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-20 Matthias Heller , Andreas von Manteuffel , Robert M. Schabinger , Hubert Spiesberger

We describe the salient features of precise predictions for the processes e+ e- -> WW -> 4f(gamma) as obtained with the Monte Carlo generator RacoonWW, including the complete O(alpha) electroweak radiative corrections in the double-pole…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Denner , S. Dittmaier , M. Roth , D. Wackeroth

A new implementation of the POWHEG method into the Monte-Carlo event generator Sherpa is presented, focusing on processes with a simple colour structure. Results for a variety of processes, namely e+e- to hadrons, deep-inelastic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-05-18 Stefan Hoeche , Frank Krauss , Marek Schonherr , Frank Siegert

We present the recent developments in the precision studies of W-pair and single-W processes in e+e- collisions achieved with the help of the KoralW and YFSWW3 Monte Carlo generators. We focus on the theoretical precision of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Skrzypek , S. Jadach , W. Placzek , B. F. L. Ward , Z. Was

The detailed study of vector-boson pair production processes at the LHC will lead to a better understanding of electroweak physics. As pointed out before, a consistent inclusion of higher-order electroweak effects in the analysis of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-01-17 Stefan Gieseke , Tobias Kasprzik , Johann H. Kühn

We compute the electroweak (EW) contributions to squark--squark pair production processes at the LHC within the framework of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM). Both tree-level EW contributions, of O(alpha_s alpha + alpha^2),…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Jan Germer , Wolfgang Hollik , Edoardo Mirabella , Maike K. Trenkel

We present the Monte Carlo event generator {\tt WOPPER} for pair production of $W$'s and their decays at high energy $e^+e^-$ colliders. {\tt WOPPER} includes the effects from finite $W$ width and focusses on the calculation of higher order…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-22 H. Anlauf , H. D. Dahmen , P. Manakos , T. Mannel , WOPPER

We present the first calculation of the next-to-leading-order electroweak corrections to W-boson + jet hadroproduction including leptonic W-boson decays. The W-boson resonance is treated consistently using the complex-mass scheme, and all…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-28 Ansgar Denner , Stefan Dittmaier , Tobias Kasprzik , Alexander Mück

The decade-old technique of combining NLO-corrected hard process with LO-level parton shower Monte Carlo is now mature and used in practice of the QCD calculations in the LHC data analysis. The next step, its extension to an NNLO-corrected…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-17 S. Jadach , A. Kusina , W. Placzek , M. Skrzypek

Four-fermion processes with a particle lost in the beam pipe are studied at LEP to perform precision tests of the electroweak theory. Leading higher-order QED corrections to such processes are analyzed within the framework of the Structure…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-01-07 G. Montagna , M. Moretti , O. Nicrosini , A. Pallavicini , F. Piccinini

We present the Monte Carlo event generator YFSWW3 version 1.16 for theprocess of W-pair production and decay in electron-positron collisions. It includes ${\cal O}(\alpha)$ electroweak radiative corrections in the WW production stage…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-06 S. Jadach , W. Placzek , M. Skrzypek , B. F. L. Ward , Z. Was

Radiative corrections to the process e+ e- to t tbar are calculated in one-loop approximation of the Standard Model. There exist results from several groups. This talk provides further comparisons of the complete elektroweak contributions,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Fleischer , J. Fujimoto , T. Ishikawa , A. Leike , T. Riemann , Y. Shimizu , A. Werthenbach

We summarize results for the complete one-loop electroweak logarithmic corrections for general processes at high energies and fixed angles. Our results are applicable to arbitrary matrix elements that are not mass-suppressed. We give…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Ansgar Denner , Stefano Pozzorini

Sherpa is a general-purpose Monte Carlo event generator for the simulation of particle collisions in high-energy collider experiments. We summarize essential features and improvements of the Sherpa 2.2 release series, which is heavily used…

We present the complete electroweak one-loop corrections to top-pair production at a linear e^+e^- collider in the continuum region. Besides weak and photonic virtual corrections, real hard bremsstrahlung with simple realistic kinematical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Fleischer , A. Leike , T. Riemann , A. Werthenbach

At energies that are large with respect to the electroweak scale, the electroweak corrections to scattering processes involve large logarithms that have to be resummed to obtain decent predictions. Soft-collinear effective theory (SCET) has…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-04 Ansgar Denner , Stefan Rode

We give a status report on new developments in the WHIZARD event generator, including NLO electroweak automation for $e^+e^-$ colliders, loop-induced processes, POWHEG matching, new features in the UFO interface and the current development…

We consider the electroweak radiative corrections in the MSSM and study the purely Yukawa contributions ${\cal O}(\alpha^L y_t^{2p} y_b^{2q})$, $p+q=L$, where $y_{t,b}$ are the top and bottom quark Yukawa couplings. We show that these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Matteo Beccaria , Edoardo Mirabella

Electroweak (EW) corrections can be enhanced at high energies due to the soft or collinear radiation of virtual and real $W$ and $Z$ bosons that result in Sudakov-like corrections of the form $\alpha_W^l\log^n(Q^2/M_{W,Z}^2)$, where…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-02-10 John M. Campbell , Doreen Wackeroth , Jia Zhou

We discuss the role of matrix element corrections (MEC) to parton showers in the context of MC@NLO-type matchings for processes that feature unstable resonances, where MEC are liable to result in double-counting issues, and are thus…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-15 Stefano Frixione , Simone Amoroso , Stephen Mrenna