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We compute the next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD corrections to the $gg \to W^+ W^- \to l^+_1 \nu_1 l^-_2 \bar \nu_2$ process, mediated by a massless quark loop, at the LHC. This process first contributes to the hadroproduction of $W^+W^-$ at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-01-27 Fabrizio Caola , Kirill Melnikov , Raoul Röntsch , Lorenzo Tancredi

We present the first analytical results for the ${\cal O}(\alpha\alpha_s)$ corrections to the total cross section for the inclusive production of an on-shell $Z$ boson at hadron colliders. We include the complete set of contributions, with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-14 Roberto Bonciani , Federico Buccioni , Narayan Rana , Alessandro Vicini

We calculated the complete next-to-leading order(NLO) QCD corrections to the $t\bar t b \bar b$ production process at a $\gamma \gamma$ collider in the standard model(SM). The calculation of the one-loop QCD correction includes the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-04-15 Guo Lei , Ma Wen-Gan , Han Liang , Zhang Ren-You , Jiang Yi

We investigate full off-shell effects in $t\bar{t}b\bar{b}$ production in the dilepton channel at the LHC with the center-of-mass energy $\sqrt{s} = 13$ TeV. Specifically, we compute NLO QCD corrections to the $pp \to e^+ \nu_e \mu^-…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-31 Giuseppe Bevilacqua , Huan-Yu Bi , Heribertus Bayu Hartanto , Manfred Kraus , Michele Lupattelli , Malgorzata Worek

NLO QCD corrections to the process $pp \rightarrow e^+\nu_e \mu^- \bar{\nu}_{\mu} \tau^+\tau^- b \bar{b}+X$ are presented with the full off-shell effects included. The calculation includes all resonant and non-resonant Feynman diagrams,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-06 Jasmina Nasufi

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

We present the calculation of the NLO QCD corrections to the associated production of a Higgs boson and two jets, in the infinite top-mass limit. We discuss the technical details of the computation and we show the numerical impact of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-28 H. van Deurzen , N. Greiner , G. Luisoni , P. Mastrolia , E. Mirabella , G. Ossola , T. Peraro , J. F. von Soden-Fraunhofen , F. Tramontano

For the first time the next-to-leading-order electroweak corrections to the full off-shell production of two top quarks that decay leptonically are presented. This calculation includes all off-shell, non-resonant, and interference effects…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-02-15 Ansgar Denner , Mathieu Pellen

The foreseen luminosities for the next LHC runs will enable precise differential measurements of the associated production of top-antitop pairs with a W boson. Therefore, providing accurate theory predictions for this process is needed for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-15 Ansgar Denner , Giovanni Pelliccioli

We report on the first computation of the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) QCD corrections to $W^{\pm}Z$ production in proton collisions. We consider both the inclusive production of on-shell $W^{\pm}Z$ pairs at LHC energies and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-17 Massimiliano Grazzini , Stefan Kallweit , Dirk Rathlev , Marius Wiesemann

QCD one-loop corrections to the semileptonic process $e^+ e^- \to \mu^- \bar \nu_\mu u \bar d$ are computed. We compare the exact calculation with a ``naive'' approach to strong radiative corrections which has been widely used in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 E. Maina , R. Pittau , M. Pizzio

We compute the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) QCD corrections to b \to c l \bar \nu_l decay rate at a fully differential level. Arbitrary cuts on kinematic variables of the decay products can be imposed. Our computation can be used to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-18 Kirill Melnikov

We present the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) corrections to the total cross section for (pseudo-) scalar Higgs boson production using an alternative method than those used in previous calculations. All QCD partonic subprocesses have…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-05-05 V. Ravindran , J. Smith , W. L. van Neerven

The Higgs boson H of the Standard Model can be searched for in the channels p pbar / pp -> t tbar H + X at the Tevatron and the LHC. The cross sections for these processes and the final-state distributions of the Higgs boson and top quarks…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-05 W. Beenakker , S. Dittmaier , M. Krämer , B. Plümper , M. Spira , P. M. Zerwas

The next-to-leading-order electroweak corrections to $pp\to l^+l^-/\bar\nu\nu+\gamma+X$ production, including all off-shell effects of intermediate Z bosons in the complex-mass scheme, are calculated for LHC energies, revealing the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-23 Ansgar Denner , Stefan Dittmaier , Markus Hecht , Christian Pasold

In this article we calculate the next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD corrections for single on-shell top-quark production in association with two jets at proton-proton colliders. The tW channel is assumed to be measured independently. The QCD…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-29 Stefan Mölbitz , Le Duc Ninh , Peter Uwer

We present a detailed phenomenological study of the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) QCD corrections for $t$-channel single top (anti-)quark production and its semi-leptonic decay at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). We find the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-02 Edmond L. Berger , Jun Gao , Hua Xing Zhu

We calculate the complete NLO QCD corrections to loop-induced $gg \rightarrow ZZ$ production including full top-quark mass effects. The two-loop virtual corrections are obtained by combining analytic results for the massless,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-27 Bakul Agarwal , Stephen Jones , Matthias Kerner , Andreas von Manteuffel

We present a fully-differential calculation of the NNLO QCD corrections to the t-channel mechanism for producing single top quarks at the LHC. We work in the structure function approximation, computing QCD corrections to the light- and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 Mathias Brucherseifer , Fabrizio Caola , Kirill Melnikov

In this contribution we present our recent computation of the NNLO QCD corrections to the production of a Higgs boson associated with a top-antitop quark pair. This process is of great importance since it allows for a direct measurement of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-10 Simone Devoto