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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

Single top quark is mainly produced through the $t$-channel W boson exchange $q + b \rightarrow q' + t$ at LHC. This process probes Wtb vertex directly and can be used to measure the CKM matrix element $V_{tb}$ or to constrain the bottom…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-22 Christian Brønnum-Hansen , Jérémie Quarroz , Chiara Signorile-Signorile , Chen-Yu Wang

We calculate differential cross sections for Higgs boson and/or two-photon production from intermediate (virtual) Higgs boson within the formalism of $k_t$-factorization. The off-shell $g^* g^* \to H$ matrix elements are used. We compare…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-26 Antoni Szczurek , Marta Luszczak , Rafal Maciula

In the framework of the littlest Higgs model with $T$ parity, we study the $W_H/Z_H+q_-$ and $W_H$-pair productions at the CERN Large Hadron Collider up to the QCD next-to-leading order (NLO). The kinematic distributions of final decay…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-06-11 Guo Lei , Zhang Ren-You , Ma Wen-Gan

Previous form-factor-based analyses of $e^+e^-\to W^+W^-$ have focused upon non-standard contributions to the $WWZ$ and $WW\gamma$ vertices. A more complete form-factor-based formalism is presented which allows for more general corrections,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Rob Szalapski

$W^+W^-\gamma$ production in proton-proton collision provides a window to the mechanism of electroweak symmetry breaking and a direct accessment to triple and quartic gauge couplings. Precision study of gauge boson self-interactions may…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-22 Jian-Wen Zhu , Ren-You Zhang , Wen-Gan Ma , Qiang Yang , Yi Jiang

We investigate the effects of the bottom-quark induced processes on the doubly polarized cross sections of $W^+W^-$ pair production at the LHC. The method to extract the on-shell single-top contribution is provided. Results for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-28 Thi Nhung Dao , Duc Ninh Le

We discuss charm production at LHC. The production of single $c \bar c$ pairs is calculated in the $k_t$-factorization approach. We use several unintegrated gluon distributions from the literature. Differential distributions for several…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-06-04 Antoni Szczurek

The increasingly high accuracy of top-quark studies at the LHC calls for a theoretical description of $t\bar t$ production and decay in terms of exact matrix elements for the full $2\to 6$ process that includes the off-shell production and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-07-31 Tomáš Ježo , Jonas M. Lindert , Stefano Pozzorini

We present a calculation of the next-to-leading-order electroweak corrections to W+\gamma\ production, including the leptonic decay of the W boson and taking into account all off-shell effects of the W boson, where the finite width of the W…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-11-13 Ansgar Denner , Stefan Dittmaier , Markus Hecht , Christian Pasold

We compare results of $2 \to 1$ $k_t$-factorization approach with Kwieci\'nski unintegrated parton distributions and the standard collinear factorization approach at RHIC and slightly smaller energies. Our approach contains only one free…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2016-09-08 Marta Czech , Antoni Szczurek

We present calculations of cross sections for single $W^-$ and $Z$ production and $W^-W^-, W^-Z, W^-\gamma, ZZ$, and $W^+W^-$ pair production within the Standard Model at $e^-e^-$ linear colliders. We evaluate Standard-Model Higgs boson…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-25 V. Barger , J. F. Beacom , Kingman Cheung , T. Han

An observation is reported of the electroweak production of a W$^+$W$^-$ pair in association with two jets, with both W bosons decaying leptonically. The data sample corresponds to an integrated luminosity of 138 fb$^{-1}$ of proton-proton…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-05-15 CMS Collaboration

We present a computation of diboson production in the $W^\pm Z$ channel at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), incorporating leptonic decays of the gauge bosons and considering intermediate gauge bosons with definite polarization states. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-20 Ulrich Haisch , Jakob Linder , Giovanni Pelliccioli , Emanuele Re , Giulia Zanderighi

We present a first study of the single top quark W-associated production (tW) in proton-proton collisions at the LHC at a centre-of-mass energy of 7TeV, using data collected with the CMS experiment. The search is performed in the dileptonic…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Jochen Ott

We study the prompt photon hadroproduction at the LHC with the $k_T$-factorization approach and the $qg^* \to q\gamma$ and $g^*g^* \to q\bar q\gamma$ partonic channels, using three unintegrated gluon distributions which depend on gluon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-24 Krzysztof Golec-Biernat , Leszek Motyka , Tomasz Stebel

We study the LHC associated production of a Higgs boson and a W^+W^- vector-boson pair at 14 TeV, in the Standard Model and beyond. We consider different signatures corresponding to the cleanest H and W decay channels, and discuss the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-04-02 Emidio Gabrielli , Matti Heikinheimo , Luca Marzola , Barbara Mele , Christian Spethmann , Hardi Veermae

Building on earlier work on electroweak corrections to W-pair production, the first calculation of the full electroweak one-loop corrections to on-shell ZZ, W$^{\pm}$Z and $\gamma\gamma$ production at hadron colliders is presented,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-16 Anastasiya Bierweiler , Tobias Kasprzik , Johann H. Kühn

The production of $W^+ W^-$ pair in hadron colliders was calculated up to loop corrections by some authors in the Electroweak standard model (SM) framework. This production was also calculated, at the tree level, in some extensions of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-01-30 E. Ramirez Barreto , Y. A. Coutinho , J. Sá Borges

From a data sample of 183 pb^-1 recorded at a center-of-mass energy of roots = 189 GeV with the OPAL detector at LEP, 3068 W-pair candidate events are selected. Assuming Standard Model W boson decay branching fractions, the W-pair…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2008-11-26 The OPAL collaboration , G. Abbiendi