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I present results for high-order corrections from threshold resummation to cross sections and differential distributions in top-antitop pair production and in single-top production. I show aN$^3$LO results for the total $t{\bar t}$ cross…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-28 Nikolaos Kidonakis

I present results for top quark production in hadronic collisions at LHC and Tevatron energies. The soft-gluon corrections to the differential cross section are resummed at next-to-next-to-leading-logarithm (NNLL) accuracy via the two-loop…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-02-02 Nikolaos Kidonakis

We discuss the recent derivation of the three-loop ${\cal O}(\alpha\alpha_s)$ contribution to the Higgs boson production cross section via gluon fusion arising from diagrams with light quarks, using an effective theory approach. We show…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Radja Boughezal

I discuss threshold resummation at NNLL accuracy in the standard moment-space approach in perturbative QCD for top-pair and single-top production. For top quark pair production I present new approximate NNLO results for the total cross…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-07-04 Nikolaos Kidonakis

We present results for the top quark pair cross section at the Tevatron and the LHC. We use the resummed double differential cross section, employing the fully kinematics-dependent soft anomalous dimension matrices, to calculate the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Nikolaos Kidonakis , Ramona Vogt

We study QCD corrections for the associated production of a single top quark and a photon ($tq\gamma$ production) at hadron colliders. We calculate the NLO cross section at LHC and future collider energies for a variety of kinematical cuts,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-08 Nikolaos Kidonakis , Nodoka Yamanaka

I discuss single top quark production at the Tevatron and the LHC. The cross section, including soft-gluon threshold corrections through NNNLO, is presented for each partonic channel. The higher-order corrections provide significant…

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

In the framework of the gluon-gluon fusion process for Higgs boson production there are two different prescriptions. They are given by the exact process where the gluons couple via top-quark loops to the Higgs boson and by the approximation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Smith , W. L. van Neerven

The status of theoretical predictions for top-quark pair production at hadron colliders is reviewed, focusing on the total cross section, differential distributions, and the description of top-quark production and decay including off-shell…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-10-12 Christian Schwinn

We present a calculation of soft-gluon corrections in FCNC top-quark production via anomalous $t$-$q$-$g$ couplings. The soft anomalous dimension matrix is explicitly calculated at one-loop accuracy. This calculation allows threshold…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-10-01 Nikolaos Kidonakis , Elwin Martin

Top-quark physics plays an important role at hadron colliders such as the Tevatron collider at Fermilab or the upcoming Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN. Given the planned experimental precision, detailed theoretical predictions are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 J. H. Kuhn , A. Scharf , P. Uwer

We report on the resummation of soft-gluon emissions for squark-antisquark production at next-to-next-to-leading-logarithmic (NNLL) accuracy. We will put particular emphasis on the one loop hard matching coefficients required to perform the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-12-22 Wim Beenakker , Silja Brensing , Michael Krämer , Anna Kulesza , Eric Laenen , Irene Niessen

In this paper we compute the QCD corrections for the triple Higgs boson production cross section via gluon fusion, within the heavy-top approximation. We present, for the first time, analytical results for the next-to-leading order…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-03-08 Daniel de Florian , Javier Mazzitelli

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

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-07-09 Nikolaos Kidonakis

We study higher-order QCD corrections beyond NLO for the associated production of a photon with a $W$ boson ($\gamma W^+$ and $\gamma W^-$ production) at the Large Hadron Collider. We calculate the NNLO soft-plus-virtual QCD corrections as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-11 Nikolaos Kidonakis , Alberto Tonero

We perform threshold resummation of soft gluon corrections to the total cross sections and the invariant mass distributions for production of a top-antitop quark pair associated with a heavy electroweak boson $V = W^+$, $W^-$ or $Z$ in $pp$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-03-27 Anna Kulesza , Leszek Motyka , Daniel Schwartländer , Tomasz Stebel , Vincent Theeuwes

I present theoretical results at approximate NNLO from NNLL resummation for top quark production at the LHC and the Tevatron, including new results at 8 TeV LHC energy. Total cross sections are shown for t tbar production, for single top…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-05-16 Nikolaos Kidonakis

The calculation of the next-to-leading order QCD corrections to the production of a neutral Higgs-boson pair is briefly summarized. The dominant production mechanism is gluon fusion via top-quark loops, so that the QCD corrections can be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Dawson , S. Dittmaier , M. Spira

I present calculations of soft and collinear corrections to the cross sections for single top quark production, and for Higgs production via b bbar -> H at the Tevatron and the LHC. I show that the corrections provide significant…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-12-19 Nikolaos Kidonakis

I present a unified calculation of soft-gluon corrections to hard-scattering cross sections through next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order (NNNLO). Master formulas are derived, from a threshold resummation formalism, that can be applied to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-29 Nikolaos Kidonakis