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We compute the QCD corrections at next-to-leading order for the process $gg \rightarrow ZH$, including both the virtual two-loop terms and real-emission contributions. The two-loop box diagrams in the virtual corrections are approximated…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-24 Giuseppe Degrassi , Ramona Gröber , Marco Vitti , Xiaoran Zhao

We calculate the complete NLO QCD corrections to loop-induced $gg \rightarrow ZZ$ production including full top-quark mass effects. The two-loop virtual corrections are obtained by combining analytic results for the massless,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-27 Bakul Agarwal , Stephen Jones , Matthias Kerner , Andreas von Manteuffel

We report on the first fully differential calculation for double Higgs boson production through gluon fusion in hadron collisions up to next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in QCD perturbation theory. The calculation is performed in the…

The Higgs boson pair production at the LHC provides a probe to the Higgs boson self-coupling. The higher-order QCD corrections in this process are sizable and must be taken into account in comparison with data. Due to the small cross…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-28 Hai Tao Li , Zong-Guo Si , Jian Wang , Xiao Zhang , Dan Zhao

We implement, at next-to-next-to-leading order, the QCD corrections to Standard Model Higgs boson production in association with vector bosons at hadron colliders, $q\bar{q} \to HV$ with $V=W,Z$. They consist of the two--loop corrections to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 Oliver Brein , Abdelhak Djouadi , Robert Harlander

We compute next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD corrections to the production of two massive electroweak bosons in gluon fusion. We consider both the prompt production process $gg \to VV$ and the production mediated by an exchange of an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-24 Fabrizio Caola , Matthew Dowling , Kirill Melnikov , Raoul Röntsch , Lorenzo Tancredi

This work studies the associated production of a top-quark pair with a $W$, $Z$, or Higgs boson at the LHC. Predictions for the total cross sections as well as for several differential distributions of the massive particles in the final…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-04 Alessandro Broggio , Andrea Ferroglia , Rikkert Frederix , Davide Pagani , Benjamin D. Pecjak , Ioannis Tsinikos

The production of Higgs bosons in weak boson fusion has the second largest cross section among Higgs-production processes at the LHC. As such, this process plays an important role in detailed studies of Higgs interactions with vector…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-08 Konstantin Asteriadis , Fabrizio Caola , Kirill Melnikov , Raoul Röntsch

Understanding the polarisation structure and providing precise predictions for multi-boson processes at the LHC is becoming urgent in the light of the upcoming run-3 and high-luminosity data. The CMS and ATLAS collaborations have already…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-27 Ansgar Denner , Christoph Haitz , Giovanni Pelliccioli

We consider the next-to-leading order QCD corrections to Higgs boson pair production, using our recent calculation of the form factors in the high-energy limit. We compute the virtual corrections to the partonic cross section, applying…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-08 Joshua Davies , Gudrun Heinrich , Stephen P. Jones , Matthias Kerner , Go Mishima , Matthias Steinhauser , David Wellmann

We present a calculation of the fully differential cross section for Higgs boson production in the gluon fusion channel through next-to-next-to-leading order in perturbative QCD. We apply the method introduced in \cite{Anastasiou:2003gr} to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-06 Charalampos Anastasiou , Kirill Melnikov , Frank Petriello

Pushing the reach of NNLO QCD predictions to $2\to3$ production processes is one of the pillars of precision phenomenology program at the LHC. In this talk we will overview recent results and developments in the calculation of two-loop…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-26 V. Sotnikov

We compute QCD radiative corrections to the continuum production of a pair of Z-bosons in the annihilation of two gluons. We only consider the contribution of the top quark loops and we treat them assuming that $m_t$ is much larger than any…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-24 Kirill Melnikov , Matthew Dowling

We compute the 3-loop O(\alpha \alpha_s) correction to the Higgs boson production cross section arising from light quarks using an effective theory approach. Our calculation probes the factorization of QCD and electroweak perturbative…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-01-15 Charalampos Anastasiou , Radja Boughezal , Frank Petriello

We consider QCD radiative corrections to Higgs boson pair production through gluon fusion in proton collisions. We combine the exact next-to-leading order (NLO) contribution, which features two-loop virtual amplitudes with the full…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-06-13 Massimiliano Grazzini , Gudrun Heinrich , Stephen Jones , Stefan Kallweit , Matthias Kerner , Jonas M. Lindert , Javier Mazzitelli

We present results of QCD corrections to Higgs boson production at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. Potentially large logarithmic contributions from multiple soft-gluon emission are summed up to all order in the strong coupling. Various…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 C. Balazs , C. -P. Yuan

We present the computation of Higgs boson production in association with a jet at the LHC including QCD corrections up to NNLO. The calculation includes the subsequent decay of the Higgs boson into four leptons, allowing for the full…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-03-11 Xuan Chen , Thomas Gehrmann , Nigel Glover , Alexander Huss

We consider QCD corrections to Higgs boson production through gluon--gluon fusion in hadron collisions. We compute the cross section, performing the all-order resummation of multiple soft-gluon emission at next-to-next-to-leading…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Catani , D. de Florian , M. Grazzini , P. Nason

After reviewing the main features of the GoSam framework for automated one-loop calculations, we present a selection of recent phenomenological results obtained with it. In particular, we focus on the recent calculation of NLO QCD…

The implementation of the full next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD corrections to electroweak Higgs boson plus three jet production at hadron colliders such as the LHC within the Matchbox NLO framework of the Herwig++ event generator is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-11-22 Francisco Campanario , Terrance M. Figy , Simon Plätzer , Malin Sjödahl