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I present calculations of higher-order corrections to top-quark production via three different processes: the production of a top-antitop pair and a $Z$ boson; single-top quark production in the $s$-channel; and top-antitop production with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-17 Nikolaos Kidonakis

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 examine the effects of soft gluons on Higgs boson production in association with a $Z$ boson at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Utilizing the universal cusp anomalous dimensions and splitting kernels, we analyze effects of soft gluons…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-28 Goutam Das , Chinmoy Dey , M. C. Kumar , Kajal Samanta

We present the most precise value for the Higgs boson cross-section in the gluon-fusion production mode at the LHC. Our result is based on a perturbative expansion through N$^3$LO in QCD, in an effective theory where the top-quark is…

I present theoretical results through three loops and N$^3$LO for soft-gluon corrections in a variety of processes involving top-quark production. In particular, I present results for total cross sections and differential distributions in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-12 Nikolaos Kidonakis

I discuss and compare several approaches to higher-order calculations of top quark production. I study the relative effectiveness of the approaches in approximating the exact NNLO results for the top-pair total cross section and highlight…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-01 Nikolaos Kidonakis

We study soft-gluon corrections for the associated production of a single top quark and a $Z$ boson ($tqZ$ production) at hadron colliders. We find that the radiative corrections are dominated by soft-gluon emission. We calculate the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-21 Nikolaos Kidonakis , Nodoka Yamanaka

We perform the resummation of soft-gluon emissions for squark and gluino production at next- to-next-to-leading-logarithmic (NNLL) accuracy. We include also the one-loop hard matching coefficients as well as Coulomb corrections to second…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 Wim Beenakker , Christoph Borschensky , Michael Krämer , Anna Kulesza , Eric Laenen , Vincent Theeuwes , Silja Thewes

We investigate the production of highly energetic top-quark pairs at hadron colliders, focusing on the case where the invariant mass of the pair is much larger than the mass of the top quark. In particular, we set up a factorization…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 Andrea Ferroglia , Ben D. Pecjak , Li Lin Yang

We consider the resummation of soft gluon emission for squark-antisquark pair-production at the LHC at next-to-next-to-leading-logarithmic (NNLL) accuracy in the framework of the minimal supersymmetric standard model. We present the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-30 W. Beenakker , S. Brensing , M. Krämer , A. Kulesza , E. Laenen , I. Niessen

In this paper, a combined resummation of soft and Coulomb corrections is performed for the associated production of the Higgs boson with a top quark pair at the LHC. We illustrate the similarities and critical differences between this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-24 Wan-Li Ju , Li Lin Yang

We perform a threshold resummation calculation for the associated production of squarks and electroweakinos at the LHC to the next-to-leading logarithmic (NLL) accuracy. Analytical results for the process-dependent soft anomalous dimension…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-24 J. Fiaschi , B. Fuks , M. Klasen , A. Neuwirth

We discuss cross sections for $tW$ production in proton-proton collisions at the LHC and at higher-energy colliders with energies of up to 100 TeV. We find that, remarkably, the soft-gluon corrections are numerically dominant even at very…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-16 Nikolaos Kidonakis , Nodoka Yamanaka

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 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

We review theoretical calculations for top-quark production that include complete next-to-leading-order QCD corrections as well as higher-order soft-gluon corrections from threshold resummation. We discuss in detail the differences between…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-30 Nikolaos Kidonakis , Ben D. Pecjak

I present approximate results that include third-order soft-gluon corrections for the associated production of a single top quark with a $W$ boson. The calculation uses expressions from soft-gluon resummation at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 Nikolaos Kidonakis

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 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

We calculate higher-order soft-gluon corrections for the associated production of a top-antitop quark pair and a $Z$ boson ($t{\bar t}Z$ production) in proton-proton collisions. We find that these corrections are numerically dominant and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-04 Nikolaos Kidonakis , Chris Foster