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The associated production of a photon and a top-antitop quark pair ($t\bar{t}\gamma$) is important for measuring the top-quark charge and probing the top-photon interaction, and it requires improved theoretical predictions. We focus on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-03 Guoxing Wang , Li Lin Yang

In this article we discuss the calculation of single top-quark production in the t channel at two-loop order in QCD. In particular we present the decomposition of the amplitude according to its spin and colour structure and present complete…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-12-22 M. Assadsolimani , P. Kant , B. Tausk , P. Uwer

The ability to calculate analytic full-colour two-to-three two-loop helicity amplitudes in massless QCD has been a recent triumph of the field, driving phenomenology towards one percent precision. In this contribution, we focus on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-31 Ryan Moodie

We numerically compute the two-loop QCD corrections to $Z\gamma$ production at the LHC mediated by light- and heavy-quark box loops. The calculation employs the pipeline of refs. arXiv:2407.18051 and arXiv:2510.18801, which performs Monte…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-04 Dario Kermanschah , Matilde Vicini

In this paper, we present analytical results for the two-loop QCD corrections to the production of two partons or a photon and a parton in hadronic collisions, mediated by loops of massive quarks. These amplitudes involve Feynman integrals…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-22 Federico Coro , Christoph Nega , Lorenzo Tancredi , Fabian J. Wagner

We present the double-virtual amplitudes contributing to the production of a Higgs boson in association with a $b\bar{b}$ pair at the Large Hadron Collider. We perform the computation within the five-flavour scheme, which employs massless…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-14 Simon Badger , Heribertus Bayu Hartanto , Rene Poncelet , Zihao Wu , Yang Zhang , Simone Zoia

We review the current status of high-multiplicity double-virtual QCD corrections to processes relevant for LHC phenomenology. In particular, we discuss the recent full-color calculation of the five-parton process, whose two-loop amplitudes…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-27 Giuseppe De Laurentis

We address the analytic computation of the two-loop scattering amplitudes for the production of two photons in parton-parton scattering, mediated by loops of heavy quarks. Due to the presence of integrals of elliptic type, both partonic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-04 Matteo Becchetti , Federico Coro , Christoph Nega , Lorenzo Tancredi , Fabian J. Wagner

Production of the Higgs boson, $H$ in association with a massive vector boson, $V$, i.e., the $VH$ process, plays an important role in the explorations of Higgs physics at the Large Hadron Collider, both for a precise study of Higgs'…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-29 Taushif Ahmed , A. H. Ajjath , Long Chen , Prasanna K. Dhani , Pooja Mukherjee , V. Ravindran

We compute the two-loop master integrals for leading-color QCD scattering amplitudes including a closed light-quark loop in $t\bar{t}H$ production at hadron colliders. Exploiting numerical evaluations in modular arithmetic, we construct a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-18 F. Febres Cordero , G. Figueiredo , M. Kraus , B. Page , L. Reina

We compute all two-loop master integrals which are required for the evaluation of next-to-leading order QCD corrections in Higgs boson production via gluon fusion. Many two-loop amplitudes for 2 -> 1 processes in the Standard Model and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-10-27 Charalampos Anastasiou , Stefan Beerli , Stefan Bucherer , Alejandro Daleo , Zoltan Kunszt

In this talk, we discuss top-quark contributions to $ZZ$ production through gluon fusion at two loops. We use syzygies and modular arithmetic to compute the reductions to master integrals. In order to numerically evaluate the amplitude, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-19 Bakul Agarwal , Andreas von Manteuffel

We present the result for the one-loop squared virtual QCD corrections to the W boson pair production in the quark-anti-quark-annihilation channel in the limit where all kinematical invariants are large compared to the mass of the W boson.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-06-19 G. Chachamis , M. Czakon , D. Eiras

We present virtual contributions up to two loop level in perturbative Quantum Chromodynamic (QCD) to the decay of pseudo-scalar Higgs boson ($A$) to three gluons ($g$) and also to quark ($q$), anti-quark ($\overline q$) and a gluon. With…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-20 Pulak Banerjee , Prasanna K. Dhani , V. Ravindran

We complete the computation of two-loop helicity amplitudes required to obtain next-to-next-to-leading order QCD corrections for three-jet production at hadron colliders, including all contributions beyond the leading-color approximation.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-15 Giuseppe De Laurentis , Harald Ita , Vasily Sotnikov

We present the analytic computation of the master integrals associated to certain two-loop non-planar topologies, which are needed to complete the evaluation of the last two color coefficients for the top-pair production in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-13 Matteo Becchetti , Roberto Bonciani , Valerio Casconi , Andrea Ferroglia , Simone Lavacca , Andreas von Manteuffel

The construction of integrands free of infrared and ultraviolet singularities may enable the application of numerical methods to evaluate loop amplitudes that are inaccessible with analytic techniques. At two loops, finite amplitude…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-10 Charalampos Anastasiou , Julia Karlen , Roshni Sahoo , George Sterman , Matilde Vicini

The production of heavy flavor quark pairs, including top-anti-top, at the LHC proceeds primarily through gluon fusion. The correlation between the gluon spins affects various spin correlations between the produced quark and anti-quark.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-10-05 Gary R. Goldstein , S. Liuti

The computation of two-loop amplitudes for the production of multiple Higgs and electroweak gauge bosons via gluon fusion with exact dependence on quark masses relies primarily on numerical methods. We propose a framework that enables their…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-13 Charalampos Anastasiou , Julia Karlen , George Sterman , Aniruddha Venkata

We report on a recent calculation of the two-loop virtual QCD corrections to the W boson pair production in the quark-anti-quark-annihilation channel in the limit where all kinematical invariants are large compared to the mass of the W…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-12-30 Grigorios Chachamis