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Future lepton colliders, such as those based on linear $e^+e^-$ or circular $\mu^+\mu^-$ accelerators, are expected to attain centre-of-mass energies in the multi-TeV range. In this regime the impact of QED and of weak radiation, in both…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-04 Stefano Frixione , Fabio Maltoni , Davide Pagani , Marco Zaro

We compute the next-to-leading order (NLO) hard correction to the gluon self-energy tensor with arbitrary soft momenta in a hot and/or dense weakly coupled plasma in Quantum Chromodynamics. Our diagrammatic computations of the two-loop and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-14 Tyler Gorda , Risto Paatelainen , Saga Säppi , Kaapo Seppänen

The process e+e- to nu barnu + gamma with a distinctive ``photon-plus-missing-energy'' signal can serve as an important tool to search for new physics at LEP2. It can be exploited to measure the WW gamma coupling, or to search for weakly…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-13 A. Jacholkowska , J. Kalinowski , Z. Was

Muon conversion is one of the best probes of charged lepton flavor violation. The experimental limit is soon expected to improve by four orders of magnitude, thus calling for precise predictions of the shape of the signal spectrum. Equally…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-16 Duarte Fontes , Robert Szafron

I review progress related to the calculation of QCD jet cross sections at the NLO accuracy. After a short introduction into the theory of NLO calculations, I discuss two recent developments: the calculation of two- and three-jet…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-29 Zoltan Trocsanyi

High precision analyses of experimental data for e+ e- annihillation, such as determination of jet rates or event shape observables, call for complete next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) perturbative QCD predictions. In this talk, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Sven Moch , Peter Uwer , Stefan Weinzierl

In this paper we present a next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) QCD calculation of the processes $pp\rightarrow l^+l^-\gamma$ and $pp\rightarrow \nu\bar\nu\gamma$ that we have implemented in MCFM. Our calculation includes QCD corrections at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-17 John M. Campbell , Tobias Neumann , Ciaran Williams

Precision studies of QCD at $e^+e^-$ colliders are based on measurements of event shapes and jet rates. To match the high experimental accuracy, theoretical predictions to next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in QCD are needed for a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-12-30 A. Gehrmann-De Ridder , T. Gehrmann , E. W. N. Glover , G. Heinrich

We evaluate the master integrals for the two-loop non-planar box-diagrams contributing to the elastic scattering of muons and electrons at next-to-next-to-leading order in QED. We adopt the method of differential equations and the Magnus…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-09-17 Stefano Di Vita , Stefano Laporta , Pierpaolo Mastrolia , Amedeo Primo , Ulrich Schubert

We use the known soft and collinear limits of tree- and one-loop scattering amplitudes -- computed over a decade ago -- to explicitly construct a subtraction scheme for next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) computations. Our approach…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 Radja Boughezal , Kirill Melnikov , Frank Petriello

The combination of energetic electron beams, delivered from conventional accelerators at a high repetition rate, and ultraintense lasers, makes it possible to perform precision measurements of strong-field QED. The LUXE collaboration aims…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-18 Alexander J. Macleod

We present the results of our recent calculation of $\epsilon^{\prime}/ \epsilon$ at the Next-to-Leading (NLO) order in QCD and QED, in the framework of $\DSone$ Effective Hamiltonians. The operator matrix elements are taken from lattice…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Reina

Some recent precision experiments in low energy muon physics are discussed. Spectroscopy on the muonium atom, the bound state of a positve muon and an electron, has provided precise tests of standard theory and yielded most precise values…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2016-09-08 Klaus P. Jungmann

The recently proposed MUonE experiment at CERN aims at providing a novel determination of the leading order hadronic contribution to the muon anomalous magnetic moment through the study of elastic muon-electron scattering at relatively…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-16 E. Budassi , C. M. Carloni Calame , M. Chiesa , C. L. Del Pio , S. M. Hasan , G. Montagna , O. Nicrosini , F. Piccinini

The MUonE experiment aims at providing a new independent evaluation of the leading hadronic contribution to the muon anomalous magnetic moment. The proposed method is based on the measurement of the running of the QED coupling in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-01 A. Gurgone

Quantum Molecular Dynamics models (QMD) are Monte Carlo approaches targeted at the description of nucleon-ion and ion-ion collisions. We have developed a QMD code, which has been used for the simulation of the fast stage of ion-ion…

We combine the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) QCD corrections to lepton-pair production through the Drell-Yan mechanism with the next-to-leading order (NLO) electroweak corrections within the framework of the FEWZ simulation code.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 Ye Li , Frank Petriello

Higher-order QED radiative corrections to muon decay spectrum are evaluated within the QED structure function approach in the next-to-leading order logarithmic approximation. New analytical results are given in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-19 A. B. Arbuzov , U. E. Voznaya

Analyses in high energy physics aim to put the Standard Model---the commonly accepted theory---to test. For convincing conclusions, analysis methods are needed which offer an unambiguous comparison between data and theory while allowing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-19 Till Martini

I describe the history of the calculations of NLO and NNLO QCD corrections to weak decays of mesons and particle-antiparticle mixing in the period 1988-2023. Also existing calculations of electroweak and QED corrections to these processes…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-01 Andrzej J. Buras