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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 present the threshold resummation for the cross section for electroproduction of heavy quarks. We work to next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy, and in single-particle inclusive kinematics. We provide next-to-leading and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Eric Laenen , Sven-Olaf Moch

I present a calculation of soft-gluon corrections to single top quark production in pp collisions at the LHC via the Standard Model partonic processes in the t and s channels and associated top quark and W boson production. Higher-order…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Nikolaos Kidonakis

We consider soft gluon emission corrections to the production of a top-antitop pair in association with a W boson at the Large Hadron Collider. We obtain a soft-gluon resummation formula for this production process which is valid up to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-10-12 Alessandro Broggio , Andrea Ferroglia , Giovanni Ossola , Ben D. Pecjak

We present the first computation of the complete two-loop, fully-differential soft function describing the production of a heavy-quark pair in association with a color-singlet system at hadron colliders. This result constitutes one of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-01 Ze Long Liu , Pier Francesco Monni

We present new results for the complete two-loop corrections in the soft approximation for W and Z boson production at large transverse momentum. Analytical expressions for the NNLO approximate corrections are used to calculate transverse…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-14 Nikolaos Kidonakis , Richard J. Gonsalves

The cross section for top quark pair production factorizes at small transverse momentum of the heavy quark pair, $q_T$. One of the key ingredients that appears in the factorization formula is the soft function, which mediates soft gluon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-11-15 Rene Angeles-Martinez , Michal Czakon , Sebastian Sapeta

We construct a resummation at partial next-to-next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy for hadronic top-quark pair production near partonic threshold, including simultaneously soft-gluon and Coulomb corrections, and use this result to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-29 Jan Piclum , Christian Schwinn

To describe the transverse momentum spectrum of heavy color-singlet production, the joint resummation of threshold and transverse momentum logarithms is investigated. We obtain factorization theorems for various kinematic regimes valid to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-10-21 Gillian Lustermans , Wouter J. Waalewijn , Lisa Zeune

I present a calculation of threshold soft-gluon corrections to single top quark production in ppbar collisions via all partonic processes in the t and s channels and via associated top quark and W boson production. The soft-gluon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Nikolaos Kidonakis

We study how next-to-leading logarithms modify predictions from leading logarithmic soft-gluon resummation in the heavy quark production cross section near threshold. Numerical results are presented for top quark production at the Fermilab…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 N. Kidonakis , J. Smith , R. Vogt

We present the computation of the soft-parton contribution at low transverse momentum for the production of a heavy quark pair in association with a colour singlet at the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in the QCD coupling. This paper…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-23 Simone Devoto , Javier Mazzitelli

The $N$-jettiness subtraction has proven to be an efficient method to perform differential QCD next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) calculations in the last few years. One important ingredient of this method is the NNLO soft function. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-02-03 Hai Tao Li , Jian Wang

We present a comprehensive analytic calculation of the next-to-next-to-leading order $\text{QCD} \otimes \text{EW}$ corrections to $Z$-boson pair production at electron-positron colliders. The two-loop master integrals essential to this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-05 Zhe Li , Ren-You Zhang , Shu-Xiang Li , Xiao-Feng Wang , Pan-Feng Li , Yi Jiang , Liang Han , Qing-hai Wang

We derive the high energy asymptotic behavior of gauge boson production cross section in a spontaneously broken SU(2) gauge theory in the next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic approximation. On the basis of this result we obtain the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-04-21 J. H. Kuhn , F. Metzler , A. A. Penin

I present a unified approach to calculating the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) soft and virtual QCD corrections to cross sections for electroweak, Higgs, QCD, and SUSY processes. I derive master formulas that can be used for any of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Nikolaos Kidonakis

I present the next-to-next-to-leading-logarithm (NNLL) resummation of soft and collinear gluon corrections to single top quark production in the s channel. Attaining NNLL accuracy involves the calculation of the two-loop soft anomalous…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-14 Nikolaos Kidonakis

We calculate the two-loop soft function for $pp \to jj$, $e^+e^- \to 4j$ or $e p \to 3j$ when the $N$-jettiness observable is measured. The result presented here makes up the necessary piece for realizing the full next-to-next-to-leading…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-26 Shan Jin , Xiaohui Liu

We study higher-order QCD corrections for the associated production of a top-antitop quark pair and a $W$ boson ($t{\bar t}W$ production) in proton-proton collisions. We calculate approximate NNLO (aNNLO) and approximate N$^3$LO (aN$^3$LO)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-22 Nikolaos Kidonakis , Chris Foster

I discuss recent theoretical results with soft-gluon corrections for various top-quark production processes through approximate N$^3$LO, including soft anomalous dimensions through three loops. I present numerical results for total cross…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-02-21 Nikolaos Kidonakis