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This report describes the recent efforts to compute analytic formulae for the Next-to-Leading-Order (NLO) QCD corrections to Higgs plus two jet production at hadron colliders. In these calculations the Higgs boson couples to gluons via a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Ciaran Williams

We report on a calculation of open heavy-flavor production at hadron colliders which extends to next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) accuracy the classic NLO-accurate formalism developed almost 30 years ago under the acronym FONLL. The…

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

We describe the calculation of all planar master integrals that are needed for the computation of NNLO QCD corrections to the production of two off-shell vector bosons in hadron collisions. The most complicated representatives of integrals…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-18 Johannes M. Henn , Kirill Melnikov , Vladimir A. Smirnov

We give an overview of our calculation of the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) QCD corrections to W + jet production in hadronic collisions. Phenomenological results for multiple differential distributions are compared to CMS data for 8…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-25 Aude Gehrmann-De Ridder , Thomas Gehrmann , Nigel Glover , Alexander Huss , Duncan Walker

In this paper, we calculate the next-to-next-to-leading-order (NNLO) QCD corrections to $e^+e^- \to J/\psi+\eta_c$ at the $B$ factories. After including the NNLO corrections, the cross section of $e^+e^- \to J/\psi+\eta_c$ is enhanced by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-08 Xu-Dong Huang , Bin Gong , Jian-Xiong Wang

In this paper the next-to-leading order (NLO) corrections to $B_c$ meson exclusive decays to S-wave charmonia and light pseudoscalar or vector mesons, i.e. $\pi$, $K$, $\rho$, and $K^*$, are performed within non-relativistic (NR) QCD…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-02-12 Cong-Feng Qiao , Peng Sun , Deshan Yang , Rui-Lin Zhu

The first results on the complete next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) Quantum Chromodynamic (QCD) corrections to the production of di-leptons at hadron colliders in large extra dimension models with spin-2 particles are reported in this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-10-29 Taushif Ahmed , Pulak Banerjee , Prasanna K. Dhani , M. C. Kumar , Prakash Mathews , Narayan Rana , V. Ravindran

We present results for W-boson production at large transverse momentum at LHC and Tevatron energies. We calculate complete next-to-leading-order (NLO) QCD corrections and higher-order soft-gluon corrections to the differential cross…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 Nikolaos Kidonakis , Richard J. Gonsalves

We review progress in calculating one-loop scattering amplitudes required for next-to-leading-order corrections to QCD processes. The underlying technical developments include the spinor helicity formalism, color decompositions,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-15 Z. Bern , L. Dixon , D. A. Kosower

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

We present a fully-exclusive next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) QCD calculation for vector boson production in hadron-hadron collisions. The calculation is implemented in a parton level Monte Carlo program, which includes the gamma-Z…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-01-25 Giancarlo Ferrera

In this contribution the first next-to-next-to-leading order corrections to the branching ratio ${BR}(\bar{B}\to X_s\gamma)$ are discussed. This includes the completion of the matching part and the fermionic corrections to the most…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Matthias Steinhauser

We present a technique to calculate the cross sections and spin asymmetries for transversely polarized $pp$ collisions at NLO in QCD and report on the use of this technique for the processes $p^{\uparrow} p^{\uparrow} \to \gamma X$,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 A. Mukherjee , M. Stratmann , W. Vogelsang

The next-to-leading order (NLO) quantum chromodynamics (QCD) corrections for $\chi_{cJ}(^3P_J^{[1]},^3S_1^{[8]})$, the P-wave charmoniums inclusive production at $B$ factories are calculated utilizing the non-relativistic QCD (NRQCD)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 Long-Bin Chen , Jun Jiang , Cong-Feng Qiao

We present a calculation of the QCD correction factors $\eta_{2B}$ and $\eta_{2K}$ up to Next-to-Leading Order within the MSSM. We took into account the region of low $\tan\beta$ for the Higgs- and chargino sector while neglecting the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 F. Krauss , G. Soff

The present status of the theoretical estimates of the difference between the widths of the neutral Bs-mesons and of the B-meson lifetime ratios is reviewed. In particular, the lattice results for the matrix elements of the relevant (delta…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Damir Becirevic

The decay $B \to X_s \gamma$ is studied at the Next to Leading Order in QCD in a class of models containing at least two Higgs doublets and with only one charged Higgs boson non-decoupled at low-energy. The two-loop matching condition is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-01-05 F. Borzumati , C. Greub

The $B_c$ meson pair, including pairs of both pseudoscalar states and vector states, productions in high energy photon-photon interaction are investigated at the next-to-leading order (NLO) accuracy in the nonrelativistic quantum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-22 Zi-Qiang Chen , Hao Yang , Cong-Feng Qiao

The matrix element of B^0 -\bar B^0 mixing is evaluated from QCD sum rules for three-point correlators with next-to-leading order accuracy in pQCD.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. A. Pivovarov

We evaluate the master integrals for the two-loop, 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 2022-10-13 Pierpaolo Mastrolia , Massimo Passera , Amedeo Primo , Ulrich Schubert