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We consider the anomalous dimension $\gamma_{gg}^{(3)}(N)$ of the twist-two gluon operator of arbitrary Lorentz spin $N$ in the quark flavor singlet sector of a general gauge theory at four loops and construct its contribution proportional…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-29 B. A. Kniehl , S. -O. Moch , V. N. Velizhanin , A. Vogt

We discuss diffractive dissociation of gluons into heavy quark pairs. The particular mechanism is similar to the diffractive dissociation of virtual photons into quarks. The amplitude for the $g p \to Q \bar Q p$ is derived in the impact…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-07-01 Antoni Szczurek , Marta Luszczak , Wolfgang Schafer

We provide the last missing ingredient necessary to approximate one-loop amplitudes in QCD with massive quarks in the limit of vanishing energy of a single gluon up to terms suppressed by this energy. Our main result is a soft operator…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-13 Michał Czakon , Kilian Erhard Minguez , Felix Eschment

We consider two-loop renormalization of high-dimensional Lorentz scalar operators in the gluonic sector of QCD. These operators appear also in the Higgs effective theory obtained by integrating out the top quark loop in the gluon fusion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-05 Qingjun Jin , Ke Ren , Gang Yang

We have calculated the step scaling function and the running coupling of QCD in the Schroedinger functional scheme with four flavors of O(a) improved Wilson quarks. Comparisons of our non-perturbative results with 2-loop and 3-loop…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2014-11-21 Fatih Tekin , Rainer Sommer , Ulli Wolff

We evaluate the one-loop soft current for the emission of two soft gluons or a soft quark-anti-quark pair in massless Quantum Chromodynamics. The results are exact in dimensional regularisation up to a single Feynman integral. Two terms of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-20 Michał Czakon , Felix Eschment , Tom Schellenberger

Theoretical understanding of the observed jet quenching measurements at RHIC and LHC is challenging in QCD because it requires understanding of parton to hadron fragmentation function in non-equilibrium QCD. In this paper, by using…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-02-21 Gouranga C. Nayak

We compute the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) contributions to the splitting functions governing the evolution of the unpolarized flavour-singlet parton densities in perturbative QCD. The exact expressions are presented in both…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-05 A. Vogt , S. Moch , J. A. M. Vermaseren

We study the self-consistency problem of the generalized Feynman rule (nonperturbatively modified vertex of zeroth perturbative order) for the 4-gluon vertex function in the framework of an extended perturbation scheme accounting for…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 L. Driesen , M. Stingl

We present a calculation of the perturbative quark-to-quark transverse parton distribution function at next-to-next-to-leading order based on a gauge invariant operator definition. We demonstrate for the first time that such a definition…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 Thomas Gehrmann , Thomas Lübbert , Li Lin Yang

We determine the three-loop form factor parameterising the amplitude for the production of an off-shell Higgs boson in gluon fusion in QCD with a single massive quark. The result is obtained via a numerical solution of a system of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-06-04 M. Czakon , M. Niggetiedt

We compute the matching relation for the strong coupling constant within the framework of QCD up to four-loop order. This allows a consistent five-loop running (once the $\beta$ function is available to this order) taking into account…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Y. Schroder , M. Steinhauser

The summary of the available semi-analytical results for the three-loop corrections to the QCD static potential and for the $\mathcal{O}(\alpha_s^4)$ contributions to the ratio of the running and pole heavy quark masses are presented. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-12-21 A. L. Kataev , V. S. Molokoedov

The fragmentation functions for $c$ or $\bar{b}$ quark to $B_c$ or $B_c^*$ meson are derived up to QCD next-to-leading order (NLO). They are further computed numerically and presented in figures precisely. In order to reach a higher…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-01 Xu-Chang Zheng , Chao-Hsi Chang , Tai-Fu Feng , Xing-Gang Wu

Within the framework of a high-twist approach, we calculate the next-to-leading order (NLO) perturbative QCD corrections to the transverse momentum broadening in semi-inclusive hadron production in deeply inelastic $e+A$ collisions, as well…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-03-19 Zhong-Bo Kang , Enke Wang , Xin-Nian Wang , Hongxi Xing

We construct a resummation at partial next-to-next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy for hadronic top-quark pair production near partonic threshold, including simultaneously soft-gluon and Coulomb corrections, and use this result to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-29 Jan Piclum , Christian Schwinn

We study QCD corrections for the associated production of a single top quark and a photon ($tq\gamma$ production) at hadron colliders. We calculate the NLO cross section at LHC and future collider energies for a variety of kinematical cuts,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-08 Nikolaos Kidonakis , Nodoka Yamanaka

In this paper we compute the QCD corrections for the triple Higgs boson production cross section via gluon fusion, within the heavy-top approximation. We present, for the first time, analytical results for the next-to-leading order…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-03-08 Daniel de Florian , Javier Mazzitelli

We apply the solution to the recursion relation for the double-off-shell quark current to the problem of computing one loop amplitudes with an arbitrary number of gluons. We are able to compute amplitudes for photon-gluon scattering,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-22 Gregory Mahlon

I present calculations of approximate corrections from NNLL soft-gluon resummation for total and differential cross sections in top-antitop pair production and single-top production in hadronic collisions. I show that soft-gluon corrections…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-21 Nikolaos Kidonakis