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Recently the next-to-next-to-leading order QCD corrections and the electroweak O(alpha) corrections to the Higgs-strahlung processes ppbar/pp -> WH/ZH + X have been calculated. Both types of corrections are of the order of 5-10%. In this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 O. Brein , M. Ciccolini , S. Dittmaier , A. Djouadi , R. Harlander , M. Krämer

We present the analytic form of the two-loop five-gluon scattering amplitudes in QCD for a complete set of independent helicity configurations of external gluons. These include the first analytic results for five-point two-loop amplitudes…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-03-06 S. Abreu , J. Dormans , F. Febres Cordero , H. Ita , B. Page

We present results for the next-to-leading order QCD corrections to the production and semi-leptonic decays of a top quark pair in hadron collisions, retaining all spin correlations. To evaluate the virtual corrections, we employ…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-18 Kirill Melnikov , Markus Schulze

We present the two-loop helicity amplitudes for the scattering of two gluons into two gluons in QCD, which are relevant for next-to-next-to-leading order corrections to jet production at hadron colliders. We give the results in the `t…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-06 Zvi Bern , Abilio De Freitas , Lance Dixon

We compute the two-loop master integrals for leading-color QCD scattering amplitudes including a closed light-quark loop in $t\bar{t}H$ production at hadron colliders. Exploiting numerical evaluations in modular arithmetic, we construct a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-07-18 F. Febres Cordero , G. Figueiredo , M. Kraus , B. Page , L. Reina

We present the analytic computation of all the planar master integrals which contribute to the two-loop scattering amplitudes for Higgs$\to 3$ partons, with full heavy-quark mass dependence. These are relevant for the NNLO corrections to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-02-01 Roberto Bonciani , Vittorio Del Duca , Hjalte Frellesvig , Johannes M. Henn , Francesco Moriello , Vladimir A. Smirnov

Knowledge of two-loop QCD amplitudes for processes $q\bar q \to V_1 V_2 \to (l_1\bar l'_1)(l_2 \bar l'_2)$ is important for improving the theoretical description of four-lepton production in hadron collisions. In this paper we compute these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-22 Fabrizio Caola , Johannes M. Henn , Kirill Melnikov , Alexander V. Smirnov , Vladimir A. Smirnov

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

We present the calculation of the fermionic contribution to the QCD two-loop amplitude for e^+e^- --> q qbar g.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Moch , P. Uwer , S. Weinzierl

We calculate the electroweak corrections of the order $O({m_t^2\over v^2})$ to the QCD production of $t\bar{t}$ pairs via $q+qbar->t+tbar$ at hadron colliders and show that these corrections to the total production rate are small. This…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-25 C. Kao , G. A. Ladinsky , C. -P. Yuan

The production of a top-quark pair, the heaviest known elementary particle, in association with a light jet is a key process for studying the properties of the Standard Model of Particle Physics. Due to its significance as a signal process…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-18 Simon Badger , Matteo Becchetti , Colomba Brancaccio , Michal Czakon , Heribertus Bayu Hartanto , Rene Poncelet , Simone Zoia

The calculation of the next-to-leading order QCD corrections to the production of a neutral Higgs-boson pair is briefly summarized. The dominant production mechanism is gluon fusion via top-quark loops, so that the QCD corrections can be…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Dawson , S. Dittmaier , M. Spira

We report on a calculation of the next-to-leading order QCD corrections to the production of W-boson pairs in association with a hard jet at hadron colliders, which is an important source of background for Higgs and new-physics searches at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Stefan Dittmaier , Stefan Kallweit , Peter Uwer

We present the first full analytic evaluation of the scattering amplitude for the process $q {\bar q} \to Q {\bar Q}$ up-to two loops in Quantum Chromodynamics, for a massless $(q)$ and a massive $(Q)$ quark flavour. The interference terms…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-28 Manoj K. Mandal , Pierpaolo Mastrolia , Jonathan Ronca , William J. Torres Bobadilla

We numerically compute the two-loop QCD corrections to $Z\gamma$ production at the LHC mediated by light- and heavy-quark box loops. The calculation employs the pipeline of refs. arXiv:2407.18051 and arXiv:2510.18801, which performs Monte…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-04 Dario Kermanschah , Matilde Vicini

We present the two-loop QCD helicity amplitudes for quark-gluon scattering, and for quark-antiquark annihilation into two gluons. These amplitudes are relevant for next-to-next-to-leading order corrections to (polarized) jet production at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-01-28 Z. Bern , A. De Freitas , L. Dixon

A short summary of a NLO QCD calculation for the top-quark pair production with a jet in the dilepton decay channel is presented. The calculation takes into account all double, single, non-resonant and interference contributions. Thus, NLO…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-19 Manfred Kraus

We present the first explicit formulae for the complete set of one-loop helicity amplitudes necessary for computing next-to-leading order corrections for e^+ e^- annihilation into four jets, for W, Z or Drell-Yan production in association…

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

We report on the calculation of the next-to-leading order QCD corrections to the production of a $t\bar{t}$ pair in association with two heavy-flavour jets. We concentrate on the di-lepton $t\bar{t}$ decay channel at the LHC with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-05 Giuseppe Bevilacqua , Huan-Yu Bi , Heribertus Bayu Hartanto , Manfred Kraus , Michele Lupattelli , Malgorzata Worek

We compute theoretical predictions for the production of a W-boson in association with a bottom-quark pair at hadron colliders at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in QCD, including the leptonic decay of the W-boson, while treating the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-17 Heribertus Bayu Hartanto , Rene Poncelet , Andrei Popescu , Simone Zoia