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We consider the production of a colourless system at next-to-leading order in the strong coupling constant $\alpha_s$. We impose a transverse-momentum cutoff, qtcut, on the colourless final state and we compute the power corrections for the…
For radially excited heavy quarkonia $ V=\psi(2S) $ and $ \Upsilon(2S) $, the nodal structure of their wave function renders the three-gluon decay $ V\to ggg $ acutely sensitive to relativistic corrections, presenting a longstanding…
The exclusive decay of the Higgs boson to a vector meson ($ J/\psi $ or $ \Upsilon(1S) $) and $ Z $ boson is studied in this work. The decay amplitudes are separated into two parts in a gauge invariant manner. The first part comes from the…
Integrated fiducial cross sections for the production of four leptons via the H to 4l decays (l = e, mu) are measured in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 7 and 8 TeV. Measurements are performed with data corresponding to integrated luminosities…
We study the six classical event-shape observables in hadronic Higgs decays at next-to-leading order in QCD. To this end, we consider the decay of on-shell Higgs bosons to three partons, taking into account both the Yukawa-induced decay to…
We analyse second moments $R_2$ of like-sign pion pairs in the two-dimensional $(q_L,q_T)$ and three-dimensional $(q_O,q_S,q_L)$ decompositions of the three-momentum difference. Conventional fit parametrisations such as gaussian,…
Motivated by the restoration of $SU(2)\times U(1)$ at high energy, we suggest that certain ratios of diboson differential cross sections can be used as high-precision observables at the LHC. We rewrite leading-order diboson partonic cross…
We compare the WW and pomeron-pomeron fusion mechanisms for the double-diffractive production of a Higgs boson. We determine the suppression of the 'rapidity gap' pomeron-pomeron fusion events due to QCD radiative effects. In particular we…
We perform global fits to general two-Higgs doublet models (2HDMs) with generalized couplings using the most updated data from ATLAS, CMS, and Tevatron. We include both scenarios with CP-conserving and CP-violating couplings. By relaxing…
We discuss the feasibility of seeing a Higgs boson which decays to four partons through a pair of (pseudo-)scalars at the LHC. We restrict our search to Higgs bosons produced in association with a W/Z boson at high transverse momentum. We…
We present a measurement of the Z boson differential cross section in rapidity and transverse momentum using a data sample of pp collision events at a centre-of-mass energy sqrt(s)=8 TeV, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.7…
We present predictions for the Higgs boson decay into four bottom quarks in the standard model and via light exotic scalars retaining full bottom-quark mass dependence. In the SM the decay can be induced either by the Yukawa couplings of…
In the spirit of the Composite Standard Model (CSM) we look at the effect of $H$, $Z_L$ compositeness on $ZH$ production in gluon-gluon and photon-photon collisions. Because they would perturb the basic cancellations occuring in SM…
We present a new release of the program iHixs. This easy-to-use tool allows to derive state of the art predictions for the inclusive production cross section of a Higgs boson at hadron colliders in the gluon fusion production mode. This…
We emphasize the importance of tagging the outgoing forward protons to sharpen the predictions for New Physics at the LHC (such as the diffractive production of a light Higgs boson). The rescattering effects lead to a rich distinctive…
Evidence for Higgs boson decay to a pair of muons is presented. This result combines searches in four exclusive categories targeting the production of the Higgs boson via gluon fusion, via vector boson fusion, in association with a vector…
We consider Standard Model Higgs boson production in association with a W boson in hadron collisions. We supplement the fully exclusive perturbative computation of QCD radiative effects up to next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) with the…
A search for a Higgs boson decay $H\to\gamma^*\gamma\to\ell\ell\gamma$ is presented. The analysis is performed using proton-proton collision data recorded by the CMS detector at the CERN LHC at a centre-of-mass energy of 8 TeV,…
Experiments at the LHC are collecting a wealth of data with an unprecedented level of precision. As a consequence, the theoretical error is now starting to lag behind the experimental one, and a ceaseless effort is required to reduce the…
The first results for charged Higgs pair production associated with neutral gauge bosons at future multi--TeV muon colliders are presented within the framework of the Two-Higgs-Doublet Model. In the phenomenological studies for the…