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We review the salient features of next-to-leading-order QCD and electroweak corrections to the scattering of two and the production of three weak gauge bosons at the Large Hadron Collider. Results for the tower of $O(\alpha_s^m\alpha^n)$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-21 S. Dittmaier

We calculate the two-loop QCD corrections to the production of the neutral supersymmetric Higgs bosons via the gluon fusion mechanism at hadron colliders, including the contributions of squark loops. To a good approximation, these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-06 S. Dawson , A. Djouadi , M. Spira

The two-loop QCD corrections to vector boson pair production at hadron colliders involve a new class of Feynman integrals: two-loop four-point functions with two off-shell external legs. We describe their reduction to a small set of master…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-08-26 Thomas Gehrmann , Lorenzo Tancredi , Erich Weihs

We compute two-loop corrections to the associated production of a Higgs boson with a $Z$ boson and to off-shell $Z$ boson pair production in the gluon fusion channel, mediated by a heavy quark. We perform deep expansions in the high-energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-10 Joshua Davies , Dominik Grau , Kay Schönwald , Matthias Steinhauser , Daniel Stremmer , Marco Vitti

We complete the computation of two-loop helicity amplitudes required to obtain next-to-next-to-leading order QCD corrections for three-jet production at hadron colliders, including all contributions beyond the leading-color approximation.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-15 Giuseppe De Laurentis , Harald Ita , Vasily Sotnikov

QCD one-loop corrections to the full gauge invariant set of electroweak diagrams describing the hadronic process $e^+ e^- \to u~\bar d~s~\bar c$ are computed. Four-jet shape variables for $WW$ events are studied at next-to-leading order and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-02-01 E. Maina , R. Pittau , M. Pizzio

The self-couplings of the electroweak gauge bosons are probed at hadron colliders through the production of a massive gauge boson and a photon. To extend the theoretical description of this type of final states towards…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-09 Thomas Gehrmann , Lorenzo Tancredi

We report on a recent calculation of the two-loop virtual QCD corrections to the W boson pair production in the quark-anti-quark-annihilation channel in the limit where all kinematical invariants are large compared to the mass of the W…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-12-30 Grigorios Chachamis

The four-loop QCD corrections to the electroweak $\rho$-parameter arising from top and bottom quark loops are computed. Specifically we evaluate the missing ``non-singlet'' piece. Using algebraic methods the amplitude is reduced to a set of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 K. G. Chetyrkin , M. Faisst , J. H. Kühn , P. Maierhoefer , C. Sturm

We present the two-loop QCD corrections to the amplitude of the Higgs production associated with a $Z$ boson via the bottom quark-antiquark annihilation channel with a non-vanishing bottom-quark Yukawa coupling. The computation is performed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-16 Taushif Ahmed , A. H. Ajjath , Long Chen , Prasanna K. Dhani , Pooja Mukherjee , V. Ravindran

We present the leading-color two-loop QCD corrections for the scattering of four partons and a $W$ boson, including its leptonic decay. The amplitudes are assembled from the planar two-loop helicity amplitudes for four partons and a vector…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-12 S. Abreu , F. Febres Cordero , H. Ita , M. Klinkert , B. Page , V. Sotnikov

We compute the three-loop QCD corrections to the vertex function for the Yukawa coupling of a Higgs boson to a pair of bottom quarks in the limit of vanishing quark masses. This QCD form factor is a crucial ingredient to third-order QCD…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-10-07 Thomas Gehrmann , Dominik Kara

We present the analytic form of all leading-color two-loop five-parton helicity amplitudes in QCD. The results are analytically reconstructed from exact numerical evaluations over finite fields. Combining a judicious choice of variables…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-23 S. Abreu , J. Dormans , F. Febres Cordero , H. Ita , B. Page , V. Sotnikov

We consider QCD radiative corrections to $W^+W^-b {\bar b}$ production with leptonic decays and massive bottom quarks at the LHC. We perform an exact next-to-leading order (NLO) calculation within the $q_T$-subtraction formalism and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-17 Luca Buonocore , Massimiliano Grazzini , Stefan Kallweit , Jonas M. Lindert , Chiara Savoini

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 extend a local subtraction framework to three-loop QCD corrections for the production of multiple electroweak bosons in quark-antiquark annihilation. We derive two-loop Ward identities that ensure the factorisation of most collinear…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-11 Rayan Haindl

We present the result for the one-loop squared virtual QCD corrections to the W boson pair production in the quark-anti-quark-annihilation channel in the limit where all kinematical invariants are large compared to the mass of the W boson.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-06-19 G. Chachamis , M. Czakon , D. Eiras

We compute the planar three-loop Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) corrections to the helicity amplitudes involving a vector boson $V=Z,W^\pm,\gamma^*$, two quarks and a gluon. These amplitudes are relevant to vector-boson-plus-jet production at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-07 Thomas Gehrmann , Petr Jakubčík , Cesare Carlo Mella , Nikolaos Syrrakos , Lorenzo Tancredi

We present the two-loop virtual QCD corrections to the scattering of massless distinct quarks in conventional dimensional regularisation. The structure of the infrared divergences agrees with that predicted by Catani while expressions for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 C. Anastasiou , E. W. N. Glover , C. Oleari , M. E. Tejeda-Yeomans

I discuss the status of the computation of the two-loop QCD corrections to top-quark pair production associated with a jet at hadron colliders. This amplitude is a missing ingredient for next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) QCD predictions.…

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