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The present calculations in perturbative QCD reach the order $\alpha_s^4$ for several correlators calculated to five loops, and the huge computational difficulties make unlikely the full six-loop calculation in the near future. This…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-02 Irinel Caprini

The phase space slicing method of two cutoffs for next-to-leading-order Monte-Carlo style QCD corrections has been applied to many physics processes. The method is intuitive, simple to implement, and relies on a minimum of process dependent…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 B. W. Harris , J. F. Owens

The FORTRAN code POLRAD 2.0 for radiative correction calculation in inclusive and semi-inclusive deep inelastic scattering of polarized leptons by polarized nucleons and nuclei is described. Its theoretical basis, structure and algorithms…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 I. Akushevich , A. Ilyichev , N. Shumeiko , A. Soroko , A. Tolkachev

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.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-19 Colomba Brancaccio

With the advent of generalized unitarity and parametric integration techniques, the construction of a generic Next-to-Leading Order Monte Carlo becomes feasible. Such a generator will entail the treatment of QCD color in the amplitudes. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Walter Giele , Zoltan Kunszt , Jan Winter

Order $\alpha^2$ corrections to the decay rate of parapositronium are calculated. A QED scattering calculation of the amplitude for electron-positron annihilation into two photons at threshold is combined with the technique of effective…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Gregory S. Adkins , Nathan M. McGovern , Richard N. Fell , J. Sapirstein

We numerically compute the two-loop QCD corrections to $Z\gamma$ production at the LHC mediated by light- and heavy-quark box loops. The calculation employs the pipeline of refs. arXiv:2407.18051 and arXiv:2510.18801, which performs Monte…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-04 Dario Kermanschah , Matilde Vicini

We have computed the even-$N$ moments $N \leq 20$ of the gluon-to-quark splitting function $P_{\rm qg}$ at the fourth order of perturbative QCD via the renormalization of off-shell operator matrix elements. Our results, derived analytically…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-16 G. Falcioni , F. Herzog , S. Moch , A. Vogt

The infrared exponentiation properties of dimensionally-regularized multi-loop scattering amplitudes are typically hidden at the level of the integrand, materializing only after integral evaluation. We address this long-standing problem by…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2019-07-22 Robert M. Schabinger

We compute the contribution of three-loop mixed QCD-electroweak corrections ($\alpha_S^2\alpha^2$) to the $gg \to H$ scattering amplitude. We employ the method of differential equations to compute the relevant integrals and express them in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-10 Marco Bonetti , Kirill Melnikov , Lorenzo Tancredi

We compute the two-loop QCD corrections to the heavy quark form factors in case of the vector, axial-vector, scalar and pseudo-scalar currents up to second order in the dimensional parameter $\epsilon = (4-D)/2$. These terms are required in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-30 J. Ablinger , A. Behring , J. Blümlein , G. Falcioni , A. De Freitas , P. Marquard , N. Rana , C. Schneider

We present a subtraction scheme for computing jet cross sections in electron-positron annihilation at next-to-next-to-leading order accuracy in perturbative QCD. In this second part we deal with the regularization of the real-virtual…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-10-27 Gabor Somogyi , Zoltan Trocsanyi

I describe how to calculate cross sections for hard-scattering processes in high energy collisions at next to leading order in QCD. I consider infrared-safe quantities and I assume that the scattering amplitudes are known in analytic form…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Z. Kunszt

The analytic integration and simplification of multi-loop Feynman integrals to special functions and constants plays an important role to perform higher order perturbative calculations in the Standard Model of elementary particles. In this…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2023-01-11 Johannes Blümlein , Carsten Schneider

We examine the Regge (high energy) limit of 4-point scattering in both QCD and gravity, using recently developed techniques to systematically compute all corrections up to next-to-leading power in the exchanged momentum i.e. beyond the…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2017-02-01 A. Luna , S. Melville , S. G. Naculich , C. D. White

We present a computation of QCD next-to-leading order virtual corrections to the top production and decay process at linear colliders. The top quarks are allowed to be off-shell and the production and decay subprocesses are treated…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Cosmin Macesanu

Using configuration space techniques, we calculate next-to-leading order (NLO) five-loop QCD corrections to the correlators of interpolating pentaquark currents in the limit of massless quarks. We obtain very large NLO corrections to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Groote , J. G. Körner , A. A. Pivovarov

The one-loop NLO radiative corrections to the observables in polarized DIS using assumption that a quark is an essential massive particle are considered. If compared with classical QCD formulae the obtained results are identical for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 I. Akushevich , A. Ilyichev , N. Shumeiko

We present the first calculation of the complete set of NNLO QED corrections for muon-electron scattering. This includes leptonic, non-perturbative hadronic, and photonic contributions. All fermionic corrections as well as the photonic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-08 A. Broggio , T. Engel , A. Ferroglia , M. K. Mandal , P. Mastrolia , M. Rocco , J. Ronca , A. Signer , W. J. Torres Bobadilla , Y. Ulrich , M. Zoller

The semi-inclusive production of identified hadrons in deeply inelastic lepton scattering on polarized nucleons allows to probe the spin structure of the nucleon target in a more detailed level than through fully inclusive processes. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-02 Leonardo Bonino , Thomas Gehrmann , Markus Löchner , Kay Schönwald , Giovanni Stagnitto