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I present high-order calculations for single-top production in the Standard Model and in models with anomalous top-quark couplings. Theoretical results are presented for total cross sections and top-quark transverse momentum and rapidity…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-10 Nikolaos Kidonakis

I present higher-order results for $s$-channel single-top-quark production that are derived from soft-gluon resummation. I show that the soft-gluon corrections provide the dominant contribution to the QCD corrections, and that they…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-20 Nikolaos Kidonakis

The studies of the associated production processes of a top-quark pair with a colour-singlet boson, e.g. Higgs, W or Z, are among the highest priorities of the LHC programme. Correspondingly, improvements in precision of theoretical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-26 Anna Kulesza , Leszek Motyka , Daniel Schwartländer , Tomasz Stebel , Vincent Theeuwes

We present new results on the NNNLO top-antitop production cross section near threshold from potential and ultrasoft gluon corrections. The new non-logarithmic third-order terms are in the 10% range and lead to a significant reduction in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Beneke , Y. Kiyo , K. Schuller

We present results with soft-gluon resummation for the associated production of a single top quark and a Higgs boson. We present analytical results for the higher-order soft-gluon corrections and numerical results for the total cross…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-08 Matthew Forslund , Nikolaos Kidonakis

I present a systematic approach to calculating soft-gluon corrections through next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order for arbitrary hard-scattering cross sections. Using a unified approach, master formulas are derived for processes with both…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Nikolaos Kidonakis

We consider soft gluon emission corrections to the production of a top-antitop pair in association with a Higgs boson at hadron colliders. In particular, we present a soft-gluon resummation formula for this production process and gather all…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-20 Alessandro Broggio , Andrea Ferroglia , Ben D. Pecjak , Adrian Signer , Li Lin Yang

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 discuss the most recent calculations of the top quark total cross section and transverse momentum distributions at the Tevatron and the LHC. These calculations include the soft-gluon corrections at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO).…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Nikolaos Kidonakis , Ramona Vogt

We construct a resummation at partial next-to-next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy for hadronic top-quark pair production near partonic threshold, including simultaneously soft-gluon and Coulomb corrections, and use this result to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-29 Jan Piclum , Christian Schwinn

The most precise theoretical predictions for the total cross section for the associated production of a Higgs boson with a top-antitop quark pair at the LHC, first presented in \cite{Balsach:2025tth}, are reported. The calculation combines…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-16 Anna Kulesza

I present a calculation of threshold soft-gluon corrections to single top quark production in ppbar collisions via all partonic processes in the t and s channels and via associated top quark and W boson production. The soft-gluon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Nikolaos Kidonakis

We describe predictions for top-quark pair differential distributions at hadron colliders, which combine state-of-the-art NNLO QCD calculations and NLO electroweak corrections together with double resummation at NNLL$'$ accuracy of…

I present a calculation of next-to-next-to-next-to-leading-order (NNNLO) soft-gluon corrections for differential distributions in top-antitop pair production in hadronic collisions. Approximate NNNLO (aNNNLO) results are obtained from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-05 Nikolaos Kidonakis

We discuss the associated production of a top quark with a photon via anomalous $t$-$q$-$\gamma$ couplings, and present higher-order corrections from soft-gluon emission for the processes $gq \rightarrow t\gamma$ at LHC energies. We perform…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-10-24 Matthew Forslund , Nikolaos Kidonakis

We review the theoretical status of squark and gluino hadroproduction and provide numerical predictions for all squark and gluino pair-production processes at the Tevatron and at the LHC, with a particular emphasis on proton-proton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-28 W. Beenakker , S. Brensing , M. Krämer , A. Kulesza , E. Laenen , L. Motyka , I. Niessen

The Higgs boson pair production via gluon fusion at high-energy hadron colliders, such as the LHC, is vital in deciphering the Higgs potential and in pinning down the electroweak symmetry breaking mechanism. We carry out the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-03-16 Long-Bin Chen , Hai Tao Li , Hua-Sheng Shao , Jian Wang

I present results for single-top and top-pair production at the LHC and the Tevatron. Higher-order two-loop corrections are used to achieve NNLL resummation, which is then used to derive NNLO soft-gluon corrections. Results are presented…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-12-13 Nikolaos Kidonakis

We make use of recent results in effective theory and higher-order perturbative calculations to improve the theoretical predictions of the top-quark pair production cross section at hadron colliders. In particular, we supplement the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-28 Valentin Ahrens , Andrea Ferroglia , Matthias Neubert , Ben D. Pecjak , Li Lin Yang

We study higher-order QCD corrections for the associated production of a top-antitop quark pair and a photon ($t{\bar t}\gamma$ production) in proton-proton collisions. We calculate the approximate NNLO cross section, with second-order…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-01 Nikolaos Kidonakis , Alberto Tonero