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We present the first calculation of the next-to-next-to-leading order threshold soft function for top quark pair production at hadron colliders, with full velocity dependence of the massive top quarks. Our results are fully analytic, and…

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We evaluate the planar two-loop QCD diagrams contributing to the leading color coefficient of the heavy-quark pair production cross section, in the quark-antiquark annihilation channel. We obtain the leading color coefficient in an analytic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-25 R. Bonciani , A. Ferroglia , T. Gehrmann , C. Studerus

We report on a recent computation of the non-factorisable contribution to the two-loop helicity amplitude for $t$-channel single-top production arXiv:2108.09222. This is the last missing piece of the two-loop virtual corrections to this…

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We perform a complete calculation of the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) electroweak fermionic corrections to fermion-pair production processes, where "fermionic" refers to contributions with closed fermion loops. We did this via a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-26 Ayres Freitas , E. Jackson Wallace

Improved predictions for the Z-boson decay width and the hadronic Z-peak cross-section within the Standard Model are presented, based on a complete calculation of electroweak two-loop corrections with closed fermion loops. Compared to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-01-24 A. Freitas

We review the resummation of threshold logarithms for heavy quark, dijet, direct photon, and W boson production cross sections in hadronic collisions. Beyond leading logarithms the resummed cross section is sensitive to the color exchange…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 Nikolaos Kidonakis

We present the complete analytical result for the two-loop logarithmically enhanced contributions to the high energy asymptotic behavior of the vector form factor and the four-fermion cross section in a spontaneously broken SU(2) gauge…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-18 Bernd Jantzen , Johann H. Kühn , Alexander A. Penin , Vladimir A. Smirnov

I present results for the resummation of soft and collinear gluon contributions to QCD hard-scattering cross sections at two loops. This requires the calculation of UV and IR divergences through two loops and the construction of soft…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-19 Nikolaos Kidonakis

We consider the factorization and resummation of soft and Coulomb gluons for pair-production processes of heavy coloured particles at hadron colliders, and discuss: the construction of a colour basis that diagonalizes the leading soft…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-01-27 M. Beneke , P. Falgari , C. Schwinn

We investigate the soft behavior of QCD amplitudes involving multiple Wilson lines and derive compact analytic expressions for double soft gluon and double soft quark emissions at one loop. The color correlations of the soft current exhibit…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-29 Yu Jiao Zhu

We highlight the latest developments in computing higher-order scattering amplitudes with massive internal propagators. The contributing Feynman integrals often lead to special classes of functions, for example, functions associated with…

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We present a complete calculation of the next-to-next-to-leading (NNLO) electroweak corrections involving closed fermion loops to the $e^+ e^- \to ZH$ process. This has been achieved by using a semi-numerical technique for the two-loop…

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We present an analytical calculation of the two-loop QCD corrections to the electromagnetic form factor of heavy quarks. The two-loop contributions to the form factor are reduced to linear combinations of master integrals, which are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-07-29 J. Gluza , A. Mitov , S. Moch , T. Riemann

We present a factorization formula for the production of pairs of heavy coloured particles in hadronic collisions at the production threshold, which forms the basis for the resummation of soft gluons and Coulomb gluons. We construct a basis…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-08 M. Beneke , P. Falgari , C. Schwinn

Recently exact results for the complete fermionic two-loop contributions to the prediction for the W-boson mass from muon decay in the electroweak Standard Model have been published [hep-ph/0007091]. This paper illustrates the techniques…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 A. Freitas , W. Hollik , W. Walter , G. Weiglein

We calculate the soft-gluon corrections for $tW$ production to all orders. The soft limit is defined in the pair invariant mass or one particle inclusive kinematic schemes. We find that at NLO the contribution of the soft-gluon effect…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-26 Chong Sheng Li , Hai Tao Li , Ding Yu Shao , Jian Wang

We present the master integrals relevant for computing the complete set of leading-colour analytic helicity amplitudes for top-quark pair production via gluon fusion at two-loops in QCD. We include corrections due to massive fermion loops…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-01 Ekta Chaubey

We present a calculation of the bosonic contribution to the two-loop mixed QCD-electroweak scattering amplitudes for $Z$-boson production in association with one hard jet at hadron colliders. We employ a method to calculate amplitudes in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-30 Piotr Bargiela , Fabrizio Caola , Herschel Chawdhry , Xiao Liu

We derive a factorization formula for the production of pairs of heavy coloured particles in hadronic collisions near the production threshold that establishes factorization of soft and Coulomb effects. This forms the basis for a combined…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-22 Martin Beneke , Pietro Falgari , Christian Schwinn

We compute two-loop electroweak corrections to double Higgs boson production in gluon fusion mediated by light quarks in a fully analytical way. We determine a basis of master integrals satisfying canonical differential equations in…

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