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Current status of the NNLO QCD corrections to B -> X_s gamma is reviewed. The calculations include three-loop matching conditions, four-loop anomalous dimensions as well as two- and three-loop on-shell amplitudes. Certain parts of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Misiak

We present the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) corrections to the total cross section for (pseudo-) scalar Higgs boson production using an alternative method than those used in previous calculations. All QCD partonic subprocesses have…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-05-05 V. Ravindran , J. Smith , W. L. van Neerven

In this contribution the QCD next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) matching coefficients to the branching ratio $B_s \to \mu^+ \mu^-$ in the Standard Model (SM) and to $\bar{B}\to X_s \gamma$ in the Two Higgs Doublet Model (2HDM) are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-11-22 Thomas Hermann

We calculate the three-loop master integrals of Ref. [1] [arXiv:1709.02160] in analytic form. This allows us to present the fermionic contributions to the $\Delta B=2$ Wilson coefficients of the $B$-$\bar B$ decay matrix in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-06 Artyom Hovhannisyan , Ulrich Nierste

We compute next-to-next-to-leading order perturbative corrections to the decay width difference of mass eigenstates and the charge-parity asymmetry $a_{\rm fs}$ in flavour-specific decays of neutral $B$ mesons. In our calculation we take…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-30 Marvin Gerlach , Ulrich Nierste , Pascal Reeck , Vladyslav Shtabovenko , Matthias Steinhauser

I present a unified calculation of soft-gluon corrections to hard-scattering cross sections through next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order (NNNLO). Master formulas are derived, from a threshold resummation formalism, that can be applied to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-29 Nikolaos Kidonakis

We calculate the next-to-leading order QCD corrections to $B$ to scalar meson form factors from QCD light-cone sum rules with $B$ meson light-cone distribution amplitudes. We demonstrate that the $B$ meson-to-vacuum correlation functions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-10-17 Xue-Ying Han , Long-Shun Lu , Cai-Dian Lü , Yue-Long Shen , Bo-Xuan Shi

The complete next-to-next-to leading order (NNLO) QCD correction matched with next-to-next-to leading logarithm (NNLL) has been studied for Drell-Yan production through spin-2 particle at the Large hadron collider (LHC). We consider generic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-28 Goutam Das , M. C. Kumar , Kajal Samanta

We discuss a practical approach to compute master integrals entering physical quantities which depend on one parameter. As an example we consider four-loop QCD corrections to the relation between a heavy quark mass defined in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-11 Matteo Fael , Fabian Lange , Kay Schönwald , Matthias Steinhauser

Production of the $B_c$ and $B_c^*$ mesons at $Z$-factory (an $e^+e^-$ collider running at energies around $Z$ pole) is calculated up-to the next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD corrections. The results show that the dependence of the total…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-07-18 Xu-Chang Zheng , Chao-Hsi Chang , Tai-Fu Feng , Zan Pan

A detailed standard model (SM) calculation of the O(alpha_s) virtual corrections to the decay width for b -> s g is presented (g denotes a gluon). Also the complete expressions for the corresponding bremsstrahlung corrections are given.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-01-05 C. Greub , P. Liniger

We calculate the next-to-leading order(NLO) quantum chromodynamics(QCD) corrections to the inclusive process of $Z_0 \rightarrow B^*_c+\bar{c}+b$ under the non-relativistic QCD(NRQCD) factorization scheme. Technical details about…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-05 Jun Jiang , Long-Bin Chen , Cong-Feng Qiao

This paper describes the calculation of the next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD corrections to massive color-octet vector boson pair production at hadron colliders. As a concrete framework, a two-site coloron model with an internal parity is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-02-27 Ayres Freitas , Daniel Wiegand

We calculate the complete next-to-leading-order (NLO) QCD corrections (including SUSY QCD corrections) to the inclusive total cross sections of the associated production processes $pp\rightarrow A^{0}\gamma+X$ in the minimal supersymmetric…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-17 Liang Dai , Ding Yu Shao , Chong Sheng Li , Jun Gao , Hao Zhang

We present a calculation of the next-to-leading order QCD corrections to the production of Higgs boson pairs in gluon fusion keeping the full dependence on the mass of the top quark. The virtual corrections, involving two-loop integrals…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-10 Matthias Kerner

The width difference $\Delta \Gamma$ among the two mass eigenstates of the $B_s$-$\bar B_s$ system is measured with a precision of 7%. The theory prediction has a larger uncertainty which mainly stems from unknown perturbative higher-order…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-01-08 Ulrich Nierste

These lectures review some of the progress made in the quantitative understanding of B decays. The emphasis here is on applications of QCD using perturbative and non-perturbative techniques. In some cases, however, phenomenological models…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-04-15 A. Ali

In this work we calculate for the first time the next-to-next-to leading order (NNLO) QCD corrections to identified hadron production at hadron colliders. The inclusion of the NNLO correction has an important impact on all observables…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-23 Michał Czakon , Terry Generet , Alexander Mitov , Rene Poncelet

I present a master formula for the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) soft and virtual QCD corrections for any process in hadron-hadron and lepton-hadron colliders. The formula is derived from a unified threshold resummation formalism.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Nikolaos Kidonakis

We compute perturbative corrections to matching coefficients of QCD to HQET for the matrix element of the $\Delta B=2$ operator that determines the mass difference in $B^0-\bar{B}^0$ system of states. This involves the technical point of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-08 Andrey G. Grozin , Thomas Mannel , Alexei A. Pivovarov