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We calculate the complete NLO QCD corrections to loop-induced $gg \rightarrow ZZ$ production including full top-quark mass effects. The two-loop virtual corrections are obtained by combining analytic results for the massless,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-27 Bakul Agarwal , Stephen Jones , Matthias Kerner , Andreas von Manteuffel

We present the analytic total cross section of top quark pair production in electron-positron annihilation at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). By utilizing the optical theorem, the NNLO corrections are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-10 Long-Bin Chen , Jian Wang , Yefan Wang

We consider top quark production and decay in the narrow width approximation and study if the polarisation effects, that manifest themselves in correlations of angular distributions of particles from top quark decays and final state jets in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-25 Sergei Makarov , Kirill Melnikov , Paolo Nason , Melih A. Ozcelik

We compute next-to-leading order (NLO) corrections to next-to-eikonal (NEik) quark background contributions to DIS structure functions. Among NEik corrections, $t$-channel quark exchanges provide the lowest order contributions in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-19 Tolga Altinoluk , Guillaume Beuf , Jules Favrel , Michael Fucilla

The contributions of virtual corrections and soft gluon emission to the inclusive Higgs production cross section pp -> H + X are computed at next-to-next-to-leading order in the heavy top quark limit. We show that this part of the total…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Robert V. Harlander , William B. Kilgore

In this work we investigate the NLO QCD+EW corrections to the top quark pair production and their effects on the spin correlation coefficients and asymmetries at fixed-order top quark pair production and LO decay in the dilepton channel,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-29 Rikkert Frederix , Ioannis Tsinikos , Timea Vitos

We study higher-order QCD corrections for the associated production of a top-antitop quark pair and a photon ($t{\bar t}\gamma$ production) in proton-proton collisions. We calculate the approximate NNLO cross section, with second-order…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-01 Nikolaos Kidonakis , Alberto Tonero

We compute for the first time the so-called complete NLO corrections to top-quark pair production with one and two isolated photons in the di-lepton top-quark decay channel. The Narrow Width Approximation is used for the modeling of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-17 Daniel Stremmer , Malgorzata Worek

In this article, we report on the computation of the NLO QCD corrections to ${\rm p}{\rm p} \to \mu^-\bar\nu_{\mu}{\rm e}^+\nu_{\rm e}\bar{\rm b}{\rm b}\bar{\rm b}{\rm b}$ at the LHC, which is an irreducible background to ${\rm p}{\rm…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-22 Ansgar Denner , Jean-Nicolas Lang , Mathieu Pellen

The parton distributions in the proton are evaluated dynamically using a nonlinear QCD evolution equation - the DGLAP equation with twist-4 (the GLR-MQ-ZSR) corrections - starting from a low scale $\mu^2$, where the nucleon consists of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-09-11 Xurong Chen , Jianhong Ruan , Rong Wang , Pengming Zhang , Wei Zhu

The interpretation of Drell-Yan production in terms of the antiquark densities depends on NLO corrections. Besides the NLO corrections to the familiar annihilation $q\bar{q}\to \gamma^* \to l^+ l^-$, there is a substantial contribution from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-25 W. Schaefer

In this paper, we study the next-to-next-to-leading-order (NNLO) QCD corrections for the process $e^+e^- \to J/\psi+J/\psi$ at the $B$ factories. By including the NNLO corrections, the cross section turns negative due to the poor…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-13 Xu-Dong Huang , Bin Gong , Rui-Chang Niu , Huai-Min Yu , Jian-Xiong Wang

The first results on the complete next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) Quantum Chromodynamic (QCD) corrections to the production of di-leptons at hadron colliders in large extra dimension models with spin-2 particles are reported in this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-10-29 Taushif Ahmed , Pulak Banerjee , Prasanna K. Dhani , M. C. Kumar , Prakash Mathews , Narayan Rana , V. Ravindran

We calculate threshold soft-gluon corrections to total cross sections and transverse momentum distributions for bottom and charm quark production in fixed-target experiments, considering both pp and pi- p interactions. We investigate the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-12-10 Nikolaos Kidonakis , Ramona Vogt

In this article we calculate the next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD corrections for single on-shell top-quark production in association with two jets at proton-proton colliders. The tW channel is assumed to be measured independently. The QCD…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-29 Stefan Mölbitz , Le Duc Ninh , Peter Uwer

We report on a recent calculation of the complete NLO QCD and electroweak corrections to the process $pp\to\mu^+\nu_\mu e^+\nu_ejj$, i.e. like-sign charged vector-boson scattering. The computation is based on the complete amplitudes…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-09 Benedikt Biedermann , Ansgar Denner , Mathieu Pellen

We present the first calculation at next-to-leading order (NLO) in $\alpha_s$ of a fragmentation function into quarkonium whose form at leading order is a nontrivial function of $z$, namely the fragmentation function for a gluon into a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-20 Pierre Artoisenet , Eric Braaten

We calculate the NLO corrections for the gluon fragmentation functions to a heavy quark-antiquark pair in ${^{1}\hspace{-0.6mm}S_{0}^{[1]}}$ or ${^{1}\hspace{-0.6mm}S_{0}^{[8]}}$ state within NRQCD factorization. We use integration-by-parts…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-22 Peng Zhang , Chen-Yu Wang , Xiao Liu , Yan-Qing Ma , Ce Meng , Kuang-Ta Chao

The semi-exclusive averaged reduced cross sections for (anti)neutrino charged current quasi-elastic scattering on carbon, oxygen, and argon are analyzed within the relativistic distorted wave impulse approximation. We found that these cross…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-09 A. V. Butkevich

We present a fully-differential calculation of the NNLO QCD corrections to the t-channel mechanism for producing single top quarks at the LHC. We work in the structure function approximation, computing QCD corrections to the light- and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-19 Mathias Brucherseifer , Fabrizio Caola , Kirill Melnikov