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We present the results of a next-to-leading order calculation of QCD corrections to the production of an on-shell top-anti-top quark pair in association with two flavored b-jets. Besides studying the total cross section and its scale…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-25 G. Bevilacqua , M. Czakon , C. G. Papadopoulos , R. Pittau , M. Worek

We present a summary of the first calculation of NLO QCD corrections to WZjj production with leptonic decays at the LHC. Our results show that the next-to-leading order corrections reduce significantly the scale uncertainties.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-10-17 Francisco Campanario , Matthias Kerner , Le Duc Ninh , Dieter Zeppenfeld

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

Results for next-to-leading order QCD corrections to the pp(p\bar{p}) -> t \bar{t} -> W^+W^- b\bar{b} -> e^{+} \nu_{e} \mu^{-} \bar{\nu}_{\mu} b \bar{b} +X processes with complete off-shell effects are presented for the first time. Double-,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-18 Giuseppe Bevilacqua , Michal Czakon , Andreas van Hameren , Costas G. Papadopoulos , Malgorzata Worek

We compute the NLO QCD corrections to the pair production of W-bosons in association with two jets at the Tevatron and the LHC. This process is an important background to heavy Higgs-boson production in association with two jets, either in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-19 Tom Melia , Kirill Melnikov , Raoul Rontsch , Giulia Zanderighi

We calculate the complete next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD corrections to the $Z^0H^0$ production in association with a jet at the LHC. We study the impacts of the NLO QCD radiative corrections to the integrated and differential cross…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-03-29 Su Ji-Juan , Guo Lei , Ma Wen-Gan , Zhang Ren-You , Ling Liu-Sheng , Han Liang

We present theoretical predictions for selected differential cross sections for the process $pp \to t \bar{t} B$ at the LHC, where $B$ can be a Higgs ($H$), a $Z$ or a $W$ boson. The predictions are calculated in the direct QCD framework up…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-05-25 Anna Kulesza , Leszek Motyka , Daniel Schwartländer , Tomasz Stebel , Vincent Theeuwes

A brief summary of the recent next-to-leading order QCD calculation for e+ ve mu- v_mu bb~ j at the LHC is given. Our computation includes all non-resonant contributions, off-shell effects and interferences for top-quarks and W gauge…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-05-18 Malgorzata Worek

We present the NLO QCD corrections to the processes p p and p anti-p to W+ W- b anti-b including leptonic decays of the W bosons. Non-resonant contributions as well as diagrams with doubly resonant and singly resonant top quark propagators…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-18 Gudrun Heinrich , Andreas Maier , Richard Nisius , Johannes Schlenk , Jan Winter

In this contribution we report on the calculation of the next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD corrections to the hadro-production of heavy neutral Higgs bosons and their decay into top-quark pairs within the type-II two-Higgs-doublet extension…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-28 Werner Bernreuther , Peter Galler , Clemens Mellein , Zong-Guo Si , Peter Uwer

We report on the first fully differential calculation for $W^\pm Z$ production in hadron collisions up to next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in QCD perturbation theory. Leptonic decays of the $W$ and $Z$ bosons are consistently taken into…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-09-13 Massimiliano Grazzini , Stefan Kallweit , Dirk Rathlev , Marius Wiesemann

We compute the O(alpha_s) QCD corrections to the partonic process gg -> t-tbar-Z at the LHC. This partonic channel is the dominant component of the scattering process pp -> t-tbar-Z, which will be important for measuring the t-tbar-Z…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Achilleas Lazopoulos , Kirill Melnikov , Frank Petriello

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 study higher-order QCD corrections for the associated production of a top-antitop quark pair and a $W$ boson ($t{\bar t}W$ production) in proton-proton collisions. We calculate approximate NNLO (aNNLO) and approximate N$^3$LO (aN$^3$LO)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-22 Nikolaos Kidonakis , Chris Foster

We calculate, for the first time, the next-to-next-to leading order (NNLO) QCD corrections to spin correlations in top quark pair production at the LHC. The NNLO corrections play an important role in the description of the corresponding…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-08-28 Arnd Behring , Michal Czakon , Alexander Mitov , Andrew S. Papanastasiou , Rene Poncelet

We calculated the next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD corrections to the cross sections for direct top quark productions induced by model--independent flavour changing neutral current couplings at hadron colliders. The NLO results increase the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Jian Jun Liu , Chong Sheng Li , Li Lin Yang , Li Gang Jin

We present a computation of the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) QCD corrections to the production of a Higgs boson in association with a W boson at the LHC and the subsequent decay of the Higgs boson into a b-bbar pair, treating the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-02 Fabrizio Caola , Gionata Luisoni , Kirill Melnikov , Raoul Röntsch

We compute the next-to-leading order QCD corrections to the production of two Z-bosons in the annihilation of two gluons at the LHC. Being enhanced by a large gluon flux, these corrections provide distinct and, potentially, the dominant…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-12-02 Fabrizio Caola , Kirill Melnikov , Raoul Röntsch , Lorenzo Tancredi

We report on studies of next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD corrections to the process $pp\rightarrow e^+\nu_e\mu^+\nu_\mu jj$ which is associated with vector-boson fusion (VBF) production of an intermediate $W^+W^+$ pair. The impact of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-11-07 Lucia Hosekova

We report on the first fully differential calculation for double Higgs boson production through gluon fusion in hadron collisions up to next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in QCD perturbation theory. The calculation is performed in the…