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We briefly describe a new general algorithm for carrying out QCD calculations to next-to-leading order in perturbation theory. The algorithm can be used for computing arbitrary jet cross sections in arbitrary processes and can be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-25 Stefano Catani , Michael H. Seymour

In this contribution, the recent calculation of next-to-next-to-leading order QCD and next-to-leading order electroweak corrections to the decay $B_s\to \mu^+\mu^-$ is reviewed, and a detailed discussion of the uncertainty of the theory…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-06-27 Matthias Steinhauser

In this paper, we calculated the branching ratios and direct CP violation of the four $B\to K\pi$ decays with the inclusion of all currently known next-to-leading order (NLO) contributions by employing the perturbative QCD (pQCD)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-08-19 Wei Bai , Min Liu , Ying-Ying Fan , Wen-Fei Wang , Shan Cheng , Zhen-Jun Xiao

We present calculations of higher-order QCD and electroweak (EW) corrections to the associated production of a top-antitop quark pair and a $Z$ boson, i.e. $t{\bar t}Z$ production, in proton collisions. We find that the contributions from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-21 Nikolaos Kidonakis , Chris Foster

We report the results of a computation of the full next-to-leading order QCD corrections to the production of two $b\bar{b}$ pairs at the LHC. This calculation at the parton level provides predictions for well separated $b$-jets. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-29 Nicolas Greiner , Alberto Guffanti , Thomas Reiter , Jürgen Reuter

We briefly describe a new general algorithm for carrying out QCD calculations to next-to-leading order in perturbation theory. The algorithm can be used for computing arbitrary jet cross sections in arbitrary processes and can be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Stefano Catani , Michael H. Seymour

We compute the average Lund multiplicity of high-energy QCD jets. This extends an earlier calculation, done for event-wide multiplicity in $e^+e^-$ collisions [arxiv:2205.02861], to the large energy range available at the LHC. Our…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-10 Rok Medves , Alba Soto-Ontoso , Gregory Soyez

We present the calculation of the next-to-leading order QCD corrections to electroweak p p -> e+ nu_e mu+ mu- jj and p p -> e- nubar_e mu+ mu- jj production at the CERN LHC in the form of a fully flexible parton-level Monte Carlo program.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 G. Bozzi , B. Jager , C. Oleari , D. Zeppenfeld

In this paper, we explore the properties of the bottom-quark on-shell mass ($M_b$) by using its relation to the $\overline{\rm MS}$ mass (${\overline m}_b$). At present, this $\overline{\rm MS}$-on-shell relation has been known up to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-08 Shun-Yue Ma , Xu-Dong Huang , Xu-Chang Zheng , Xing-Gang Wu

We describe the calculation of the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) QCD corrections to isolated photon and photon-plus-jet production, and discuss how the experimental hadron-level photon definition and isolation criteria can be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-29 Xuan Chen , Thomas Gehrmann , Nigel Glover , Marius Höfer , Alexander Huss

The calculation of QCD corrections beyond the leading logarithmic approximation for the short-distance dominated rare decay $K^+\to\pi^+\nu\bar\nu$ is summarized. This analysis requires the complete ${\cal O}(\alpha_s)$ corrections to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Gerhard Buchalla

In this contribution, we summarize our results on the complete NLO predictions for the production of off-shell top quark pairs in the $\ell+j$ channel at the LHC. All NLO QCD and electroweak corrections are consistently included across the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-09 Leon Mans

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 the first complete high-precision QCD corrections to the inclusive decay width $\mathrm{\Gamma}_t$, the $W$-helicity fractions $f_{\mathrm{L,R,0}}$ and semi-inclusive distributions for the top-quark decay process $t \rightarrow b…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-10 Long Chen , Xiang Chen , Xin Guan , Yan-Qing Ma

We briefly report on NLO QCD corrections to the $pp \to t\bar{t} B +X$ process, where $B$ stands for $H,\,W^\pm$ or $Z$. In the calculation all double-, single and non-resonant Feynman diagrams, interferences and finite-width effects are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-28 Malgorzata Worek

In this short review, the calculation of the next-to-next-to-leading order QCD corrections to the inclusive radiative decay B -> X_s gamma is described. I summarize the salient features of the calculational framework adopted, discuss the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-30 Andrea Ferroglia

We extract the top-quark mass value in the on-shell renormalization scheme from the comparison of theoretical predictions for $pp \rightarrow t\bar{t} + X$ at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) QCD accuracy with experimental data…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-31 M. V. Garzelli , J. Mazzitelli , S. -O. Moch , O. Zenaiev

We present the status of on-going efforts to compute the two-loop virtual corrections to $pp\to t\bar{t} j$ in the leading colour approximation. We review the recent study of the master integrals and their differential equations and present…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-20 Simon Badger

We calculate the two-loop QCD correction to the form factors of on-shell b-quark decay to an energetic massless quark, which constitutes the last missing piece required for an O(alpha_s^2) determination of |V_ub| from inclusive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-18 M. Beneke , T. Huber , Xin-Qiang Li

The inclusive $J/\psi$ production in $e^+ e^- \to J/\psi c\bar c$ at B factories is one of the most challenging open problems in heavy quarkonium physics. The observed cross section of this double charm production process is larger than…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Yu-Jie Zhang , Kuang-Ta Chao