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One of the most challenging open problems in heavy quarkonium physics is the double charm production in $e^+e^-$ annihilation at B factories. The measured cross section of $e^+ e^- \to J/\psi + \eta_c$ is much larger than leading order (LO)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Y. J. Zhang , Y. J. Gao , K. T. Chao

We describe recent evaluations of three-loop vertex corrections which have been performed in the context of different physical applications: the massless quark and gluon form factor, the vector current matching coefficient between QCD and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-01-19 Matthias Steinhauser

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 compute the NNLO QCD corrections to three-photon production at the LHC. This is the first NNLO QCD calculation for a $2\to 3$ process. Our calculation is exact, except for the scale-independent part of the two-loop finite remainder which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-02-27 Herschel A. Chawdhry , Michał Czakon , Alexander Mitov , Rene Poncelet

We present analytical next-to-leading order results for the correlator of baryonic currents at the three-loop level with one finite mass quark. We obtain the massless and the HQET limits of the correlator as particular cases from the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 S. Groote , J. G. Körner , A. A. Pivovarov

Based on the framework of nonrelativistic Quantum Chromodynamics (NRQCD), we carry out next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD corrections to the decay of $Z$ boson into $\chi_c$ and $\chi_b$, respectively. The branching ratio of $Z \to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-05-15 Zhan Sun , Hong-Fei Zhang

Multi-jet rates at hadron colliders provide a unique possibility for probing Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), the theory of strong interactions. By comparing theory predictions with collider data, one can directly test perturbative QCD,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-30 Michal Czakon , Alexander Mitov , Rene Poncelet

We investigate the electromagnetic properties of the fully charm tetraquark states, particularly incorporating contributions from internal gluon radiations. The paper first presents analytical expressions for the next-to-leading-order (NLO)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-29 Xinran Liu , Yefan Wang , Ruilin Zhu

We present analytic results for three-loop fermionic corrections to the heavy-light form factors in perturbative quantum chromodynamics. Specifically, we present all light quark contributions and contributions from two heavy quark loops. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-23 Sudeepan Datta , Narayan Rana

In this paper we evaluate the renormalization constants and anomalous dimensions for the squark wave function and mass within supersymmetric QCD. These results complement the ones obtained in Ref. \cite{Harlander:2009mn} and thus provide…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-28 Thomas Hermann , Luminita Mihaila , Matthias Steinhauser

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

In this paper we compute the decay constant of the pseudo-scalar heavy-light mesons in the heavy quark effective theory framework of QCD sum rules. In our analysis we include the recently evaluated three-loop result of order $\alpha_s^2$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-01-27 A. A. Penin , M. Steinhauser

We reanalyze the perturbative QCD (pQCD) corrections to quarkonium QCD sum rules and extract the heavy quark masses $\overline{m}_{q}(\overline{m}_{q})$ ($q=c,b$). At present, the pQCD corrections to the correlation functions of two…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-11 Qing Yu , Hua Zhou , Xing-Gang Wu

The QCD/HQET matching coefficient for the heavy-quark field is calculated up to four loops. It must be finite; this requirement produces analytical results for some terms in the four-loop on-shell heavy-quark field renormalization constant…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-16 Andrey G. Grozin , Peter Marquard , Alexander V. Smirnov , Vladimir A. Smirnov , Matthias Steinhauser

The $B_c(^1S_0)$ meson to S-wave Charmonia transition form factors are calculated in next-to-leading order(NLO) accuracy of Quantum Chromodynamics(QCD). Our results indicate that the higher order corrections to these form factors are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-27 Cong-Feng Qiao , Peng Sun , Feng Yuan

We discuss Partially Quenched Chiral Perturbation Theory (PQ$\chi$PT) and possible fitting strategies to Lattice QCD data at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in the mesonic sector. We also present a complete calculation of the masses of…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2009-11-11 Johan Bijnens , Niclas Danielsson , Timo A. Lahde

We report a calculation of approximate next-to-next-to-leading-order (N$^2$LO) and next-to-N$^2$LO (N$^3$LO) QCD corrections to associated $tW$ production at the LHC, which constitute the dominant contributions to full perturbative…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-12 Jia-Le Ding , Hai Tao Li , Jian Wang

We compute two-loop corrections to the vector current matching coefficient involving two heavy quark masses. The result is applied to the computation of the $\Upsilon(1S)$ decay width into an electron or muon pair. We complement the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-04 Manuel Egner , Matteo Fael , Jan Piclum , Kay Schoenwald , Matthias Steinhauser

We present a calculation of all matching coefficients for $N$-jettiness beam functions at next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order (N$^3$LO) in perturbative quantum chromodynamics (QCD). Our computation is performed starting from the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-01 Daniel Baranowski , Arnd Behring , Kirill Melnikov , Lorenzo Tancredi , Christopher Wever

In this study, we conduct an enhanced investigation of pure annihilation-type charmless hadronic B-decays within the framework of the PQCD approach. Specifically, we account for the quark-loop enhanced contribution to various decay…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-22 Hong-Yuan Shen , Feng-Chen Chu , Yue-Long Shen , Zhi-Tian Zou