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We present the complete calculation of the top-quark decay width at next-to-next-to-leading order in QCD, including next-to-leading electroweak corrections as well as finite bottom quark mass and $W$ boson width effects. In particular, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 Jun Gao , Chong Sheng Li , Hua Xing Zhu

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 present the first analytic results of N$^3$LO QCD corrections to the top-quark decay width. We focus on the dominant leading color contribution, which includes light-quark loops. At NNLO, this dominant contribution accounts for 95% of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-26 Long-Bin Chen , Hai Tao Li , Zhao Li , Jian Wang , Yefan Wang , Quan-feng Wu

In this paper, we analyze the top-quark decay $t\to Wb$ up to next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order (N$^{3}$LO) QCD corrections. For the purpose, we first adopt the principle of maximum conformality (PMC) to deal with the initial pQCD…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-22 Jiang Yan , Xing-Gang Wu , Hua Zhou , Hong-Tai Li , Jing-Hao Shan

We analyse the top-quark decay at the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in QCD by using the Principle of Maximum Conformality (PMC) which provides a systematic way to eliminate renormalization scheme and scale ambiguities in perturbative…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-08 Rui-Qing Meng , Sheng-Quan Wang , Ting Sun , Chao-Qin Luo , Jian-Ming Shen , Xing-Gang Wu

The decay widths of top quark to S-wave $b\bar{c}$ and $b\bar{b}$ bound states are evaluated at the next-to-leading(NLO) accuracy in strong interaction. Numerical calculation shows that the NLO corrections to these processes are remarkable.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Peng Sun , Li-Ping Sun , Cong-Feng Qiao

We address the long-standing problem of negative decay and production rates in perturbative QCD for exclusive processes by proposing amplitude-level NRQCD factorization as a systematic prescription. Building on this, we present the first…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-09 Chao Zeng , Bin Gong , Jian-Xiong Wang , Ruichang Niu , Xu-Dong Huang , Cong Li

The production of top-antitop-quark pairs at hadron colliders is interesting both in its own right as signal process, but also as background to many searches for new physics. The corresponding predictions aim at the precision level of few…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-08-21 Ansgar Denner , Stefan Dittmaier , Stefan Kallweit , Stefano Pozzorini

We compute theoretical predictions for the production of a W-boson in association with a bottom-quark pair at hadron colliders at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in QCD, including the leptonic decay of the W-boson, while treating the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-17 Heribertus Bayu Hartanto , Rene Poncelet , Andrei Popescu , Simone Zoia

We compute the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) QCD corrections to the hadronic decay rates of the pseudoscalar quarkonia, at the lowest order in velocity expansion. The validity of NRQCD factorization for inclusive quarkonium decay…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-12-27 Feng Feng , Yu Jia , Wen-Long Sang

We compute the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) QCD corrections to b \to c l \bar \nu_l decay rate at a fully differential level. Arbitrary cuts on kinematic variables of the decay products can be imposed. Our computation can be used to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-18 Kirill Melnikov

We present details of a calculation of the cross section for hadronic top-antitop production in next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD, including the decays of the top and antitop into bottom quarks and leptons. This calculation is based on matrix…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-11-07 Ansgar Denner , Stefan Dittmaier , Stefan Kallweit , Stefano Pozzorini

The decay width of $Z^0$ to $B_c$ meson is evaluated at the next-to-leading order(NLO) accuracy in strong interaction. Numerical calculation shows that the NLO correction to this process is remarkable. The quantum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-28 Cong-Feng Qiao , Li-Ping Sun , Rui-Lin Zhu

We examine the effect of higher-order QCD corrections on the four top-quark production cross section in the $3$ lepton decay channel. Top-quark and $W$ gauge-boson decays are included at next-to-leading order in perturbative QCD. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-10 Nikolaos Dimitrakopoulos , Malgorzata Worek

We consider QCD radiative corrections to $W^+W^-b {\bar b}$ production with leptonic decays and massive bottom quarks at the LHC. We perform an exact next-to-leading order (NLO) calculation within the $q_T$-subtraction formalism and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-17 Luca Buonocore , Massimiliano Grazzini , Stefan Kallweit , Jonas M. Lindert , Chiara Savoini

Within the framework of nonrelativistic QCD (NRQCD) factorization, we calculate the next-to-leading-order (NLO) perturbative corrections to the radiative decay $\Upsilon\to \eta_c(\chi_{cJ})+\gamma$. Both the helicity amplitudes and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-05 Yu-Dong Zhang , Feng Feng , Wen-Long Sang , Hong-Fei Zhang

We present a fully differential next-to-next-to-leading order calculation of t-channel single top-quark production and decay at the LHC under narrow-width approximation and neglecting cross-talk between incoming protons. We focus on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-01 Edmond L. Berger , Jun Gao , C. -P. Yuan , Hua Xing Zhu

In this paper, we calculate the total decay widths for the $W^+$-boson decays, $W^+ \to B_c+b+\bar{s}+X$ and $W^+ \to B^*_c+b+\bar{s}+X$, up to next-to-leading order (NLO) accuracy within the framework of the nonrelativistic QCD theory.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-03-04 Xu-Chang Zheng , Chao-Hsi Chang , Xing-Gang Wu , Jun Zeng , Xu-Dong Huang

It has been found that at a high luminosity $e^+ e^-$ collider, sizable $\eta_c+c\bar{c}X$ and $\eta_b+b\bar{b}X$ events can be produced when it works around the $Z$ peak. In this paper, we calculate the decay widths of $Z \to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-11 Xu-Chang Zheng , Xing-Gang Wu , Xi-Jie Zhan , Hua Zhou , Hong-Tai Li

Motivated by ongoing new physics searches in the top-quark sector at the Large Hadron Collider we report on the calculation of NLO QCD corrections to the Standard Model $pp\to t\bar{t}Z+X$ process in the tetra-lepton decay channel. This…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-09 Giuseppe Bevilacqua , Heribertus Bayu Hartanto , Manfred Kraus , Jasmina Nasufi , Malgorzata Worek
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