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We present the implementation of next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) electroweak (EW) virtual corrections at next-to-leading logarithmic (NLL) accuracy in the amplitude generator OpenLoops. The implementation covers the automated…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-17 J. M. Lindert , L. Mai

We present the first combination of NNLO QCD and NLO EW corrections for vector-boson pair production at the LHC. We consider all final states with two, three and four charged leptons, including resonant and non-resonant diagrams, spin…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-02-27 Massimiliano Grazzini , Stefan Kallweit , Jonas M. Lindert , Stefano Pozzorini , Marius Wiesemann

We present results on NLO electroweak (EW) corrections to multiple massive boson production processes at a future muon collider. Inclusive cross sections with $\mathcal{O}(\alpha)$ corrections for processes for up to four bosons in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-01-18 Pia Bredt , Wolfgang Kilian , Jürgen Reuter , Pascal Stienemeier

We review recent results on next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD and electroweak (EW) corrections for processes involving off-shell top quarks. For the off-shell production of two top quarks that decay leptonically, the full NLO EW corrections…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-27 Ansgar Denner , Jean-Nicolas Lang , Mathieu Pellen , Sandro Uccirati

In this paper we calculate the next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD $[{\cal O}(\alpha_s \alpha^3)]$ and electroweak (EW) $[{\cal O}(\alpha^4)]$ corrections to the $WWW$ production at the LHC and deal with the subsequent leptonic decays from $W$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-07-13 Shen Yong-Bai , Zhang Ren-You , Ma Wen-Gan , Li Xiao-Zhou , Guo Lei

The production of WWZ at the LHC is an important process to test the quartic gauge couplings of the Standard Model as well as an important background for new physics searches. A good theoretical understanding at next-to-leading order (NLO)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-07-30 Dao Thi Nhung , LE Duc Ninh , Marcus M. Weber

In this paper we present the full NLO QCD + NLO EW corrections to the $Z$-boson pair production in association with a hard jet at the LHC. The subsequent $Z$-boson leptonic decays are included by adopting both the naive NWA and MadSpin…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-07-27 Wang Yong , Zhang Ren-You , Ma Wen-Gan , Li Xiao-Zhou , Guo Lei

Higgs boson production associated with a top quark pair is an important process in studying the nature of the newly discovered Higgs boson at the LHC. In this letter, we report on our calculations including the next-to-leading order (NLO)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-09-24 Zhang Yu , Ma Wen-Gan , Zhang Ren-You , Chen Chong , Guo Lei

We present calculations of higher-order QCD and electroweak (EW) corrections to the associated production of a top-antitop quark pair and a $Z$ boson, i.e. $t{\bar t}Z$ production, in proton collisions. We find that the contributions from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-21 Nikolaos Kidonakis , Chris Foster

Electroweak Sudakov logarithms at high energy, of the form alpha/(sin^2theta_W)^n log^m s/M_{Z,W}^2, are summed using effective theory methods. The corrections are computed to processes involving two external particles in the standard…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Jui-yu Chiu , Frank Golf , Randall Kelley , Aneesh V. Manohar

As experimental particle physics becomes more and more precise, it is becoming increasingly important for Monte Carlo simulations to improve the precision of their predictions. In terms of the hard matrix element, this means calculating to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-07-01 Jennifer M Thompson

In electroweak-boson production processes with a jet veto, higher-order corrections are enhanced by logarithms of the veto scale over the invariant mass of the boson system. In this paper, we resum these Sudakov logarithms at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-23 Thomas Becher , Rikkert Frederix , Matthias Neubert , Lorena Rothen

In this talk we present a fully automated implementation of next-to-leading order electroweak (NLO EW) corrections in OpenLoops together with Sherpa and Munich. As a first application, we present NLO QCD+EW predictions for the production of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-22 Stefan Kallweit , Jonas M. Lindert , Stefano Pozzorini , Marek Schönherr , Philipp Maierhöfer

Recently, the ATLAS and CMS collaborations jointly announced the first evidence of the rare Higgs boson decay channel $H\to Z\gamma$, with a ratio of $2.2\pm 0.7$ times the leading order standard model (SM) prediction. In order to face this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-04 Zi-Qiang Chen , Long-Bin Chen , Cong-Feng Qiao , Ruilin Zhu

We present automated next-to-leading order QCD and/or electroweak (EW) predictions for photon-photon processes in ultraperipheral high-energy collisions of protons and ions, extending the capabilities of the MadGraph5_aMC@NLO framework…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-03 Hua-Sheng Shao , Lukas Simon

The production of a top-antitop quark pair in association with a $W$ boson ($t\bar tW$) is one of the heaviest signatures currently probed at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Since the first observation reported in 2015 the corresponding…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-08 Luca Buonocore , Simone Devoto , Massimiliano Grazzini , Stefan Kallweit , Javier Mazzitelli , Luca Rottoli , Chiara Savoini

In this article we present an event generator based on the Monte Carlo program Powheg in combination with the matrix-element generator Recola. We apply it to compute NLO electroweak corrections to same-sign W-boson scattering, which have…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-02-19 Mauro Chiesa , Ansgar Denner , Jean-Nicolas Lang , Mathieu Pellen

In these proceedings, next-to-leading-order (NLO) QCD and electroweak (EW) corrections to ${\rm p}{\rm p} \to {\rm e}^+ \nu_{\rm e} \mu^- \bar \nu_\mu {\rm b} \bar{\rm b} {\rm H}$ at the LHC are presented. In these computations the top…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-22 Ansgar Denner , Jean-Nicolas Lang , Mathieu Pellen , Sandro Uccirati

We consider the production of a Z boson decaying to leptons in association with a bottom-quark pair in hadronic collisions. For the first time, we compute predictions at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in QCD, and we combine them with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-21 Javier Mazzitelli , Vasily Sotnikov , Marius Wiesemann

We present an implementation of the full electroweak $H+2~\text{jets}$ production process at hadron colliders in the framework of the $\tt{POWHEG~BOX}$, a public tool for the matching of fixed-order perturbative calculations with parton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-04 Barbara Jäger , Johannes Scheller