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The complete QCD corrections to the scalar top quark pair production via $\gamma \gamma$ fusion in parent $e^{+}e^{-}$ collider are calculated in the Supersymmetric Model. The various origins of corrections are discussed. We find that the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 Chao-Hsi Chang , Liang Han , Wen-Gan Ma , Zeng-Hui Yu

We present the first next-to-leading-order (NLO) perturbative QCD (pQCD) study of rapidity-differential cross sections of coherent exclusive photoproduction of $J/\psi$ mesons in heavy-ion ultraperipheral collisions (UPCs) at the LHC,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-10-05 Kari J. Eskola , Christopher A. Flett , Vadim Guzey , Topi Löytäinen , Hannu Paukkunen

One of the most challenging open problems in heavy quarkonium physics is the double charm production in $e^+e^-$ annihilation at B factories. The measured cross section of $e^+ e^- \to J/\psi + \eta_c$ is much larger than leading order (LO)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Y. J. Zhang , Y. J. Gao , K. T. Chao

The fragmentation functions for $c$ or $\bar{b}$ quark to $B_c$ or $B_c^*$ meson are derived up to QCD next-to-leading order (NLO). They are further computed numerically and presented in figures precisely. In order to reach a higher…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-01 Xu-Chang Zheng , Chao-Hsi Chang , Tai-Fu Feng , Xing-Gang Wu

The Higgs boson production associated with a $W$-boson and a photon at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) can be used to probe the coupling between Higgs boson and vector gauge bosons and discover a signature of new physics. We present the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-10-04 Song Mao , Wan Neng , Li Gang , Ma Wen-Gan , Zhang Ren-You , Guo Lei , Zhou Ya-Jin , Guo Jian-You

We report on the computation of NLO QCD corrections to top-quark pair production in association with two photons at the LHC. Higher-order effects and photon bremsstrahlung are taken into account in the production and decays of the top-quark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-09-01 Daniel Stremmer , Malgorzata Worek

In heavy quarkonium production, the measured ratio $R_{c \bar c}=\sigma[J/\psi+ c\bar c + X]/\sigma[J/\psi +X]$ at B factories is much larger than existing theoretical predictions. To clarify this discrepancy, in nonrelativistic QCD (NRQCD)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-06-19 Yan-Qing Ma , Yu-Jie Zhang , Kuang-Ta Chao

We present a complete next-to-leading order (NLO) calculation for the total cross section of inclusive Higgs pair production via bottom-quark fusion ($b\bar{b} \to hh$) at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in the Standard Model. The NLO…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Sally Dawson , Chung Kao , Yili Wang , Peter Williams

Higher-order pQCD corrections play an important role in the reproduction of data at high transverse momenta in the energy range 20 GeV $ \leq \sqrt{s} \leq 200$ GeV. Recent calculations of photon and pion production in $pp$ collisions yield…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2008-11-26 G. G. Barnafoldi , G. Fai , P. Levai , G. Papp , Y. Zhang

We present a comprehensive investigation of next-to-leading order (NLO) quantum chromodynamics (QCD) corrections to Higgs boson pair production and the subsequent decay into $b\bar{b}\tau^+ \tau^-$. We adopt the narrow-width approximation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-18 Hai Tao Li , Zong-Guo Si , Jian Wang , Xiao Zhang , Dan Zhao

We report the results of a computation of the full next-to-leading order QCD corrections to the production of two $b\bar{b}$ pairs at the LHC. This calculation at the parton level provides predictions for well separated $b$-jets. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-29 Nicolas Greiner , Alberto Guffanti , Thomas Reiter , Jürgen Reuter

We consider lepton pair production at a hadron collider in a class of effective theories with the relevant operators being four-fermion contact interaction. Despite the nonrenormalizable nature of the interaction, we explicitly demonstrate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Debajyoti Choudhury , Swapan Majhi , V. Ravindran

We present a full next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD corrections to diphoton production at the hadron colliders in both standard model and ADD model. The invariant mass and rapidity distributions of the diphotons are obtained using a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-02-02 M. C. Kumar , Prakash Mathews , V. Ravindran , Anurag Tripathi

We consider direct diphoton production in hadron collisions, and we compute the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) QCD radiative corrections at the fully-differential level. Our calculation uses the $q_T$ subtraction formalism and it is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-06-27 Stefano Catani , Leandro Cieri , Daniel de Florian , Giancarlo Ferrera , Massimiliano Grazzini

We present total and differential cross sections for the production of a hard photon with up to two b jets at both the Tevatron with center-of-mass energy 1.96 TeV and the Large Hadron Collider with center-of-mass energy 8 TeV, including…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-04-23 H. B. Hartanto , L. Reina

We calculate the next-to-next-to-next-to-leading-order (N$^3$LO) QCD corrections to inclusive vector-boson fusion (VBF) Higgs production at proton colliders, in the limit in which there is no colour exchange between the hadronic systems…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-17 Frédéric A. Dreyer , Alexander Karlberg

We present theoretical analysis of paired $B_c$ mesons production in $e^+e^-$ annihilation at different energy scales taking into account full next-to-leading order QCD corrections. Both possible electroweak channels are considered:…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-01-04 A. V. Berezhnoy , A. K. Likhoded , A. I. Onishchenko , S. V. Poslavsky

In this paper we study the Single Top and W boson associated photoproduction via the main reaction $\rm pp\rightarrow p\gamma p\rightarrow pW^{\pm}t+Y$ at the 14 TeV Large Hadron Collider (LHC) up to next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD level…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-22 Hao Sun , Wei Liu , Xiao-Juan Wang , Ya-Jin Zhou , Hong-Sheng Hou

We compute the Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order (NNLO) QCD corrections to the partonic reaction that dominates top-pair production at the Tevatron. This is the first ever NNLO calculation of an observable with more than two colored partons,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 Peter Baernreuther , Michal Czakon , Alexander Mitov

We consider the production of a Z boson decaying to leptons in association with a bottom-quark pair in hadronic collisions. For the first time, we compute predictions at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in QCD, and we combine them with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-21 Javier Mazzitelli , Vasily Sotnikov , Marius Wiesemann