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We present the first calculation of the next-to-next-to-leading order threshold soft function for top quark pair production at hadron colliders, with full velocity dependence of the massive top quarks. Our results are fully analytic, and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-04 Guoxing Wang , Xiaofeng Xu , Li Lin Yang , Hua Xing Zhu

We consider QCD radiative corrections to the production of a heavy-quark pair in hadronic collisions. We present the computation of the soft-parton contributions at low transverse momentum of the heavy-quark pair up to second order in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-17 Stefano Catani , Simone Devoto , Massimiliano Grazzini , Javier Mazzitelli

The transverse-momentum-dependent (TMD) soft function for a generic hadroproduction process involving massive colored particles is analytically calculated at the one-loop level, extended to higher orders in the dimensional regulator…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-04 Hua-Sheng Shao , Guoxing Wang

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

The soft function relevant for the production of an electroweak boson (photon, W, Z or H) with large transverse momentum at a hadron collider is computed at next-to-next-to-leading order. This is the first two-loop computation of a soft…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-03 Thomas Becher , Guido Bell , Stefanie Marti

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

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

At high values of the pair invariant mass the differential cross section for top-quark pair production at hadron colliders factorizes into soft, hard, and fragmentation functions. In this paper we calculate the next-to-next-to-leading-order…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-05 Andrea Ferroglia , Ben D. Pecjak , Li Lin Yang

All (un)polarized transverse momentum dependent functions (TMDs), both distribution and fragmentation functions, are defined with the same universal soft function, which cancels spurious rapidity divergences within an individual TMD and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-09 Miguel G. Echevarria , Ignazio Scimemi , Alexey Vladimirov

We present a computation of the global soft function for single-inclusive hadronic jet production at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in the strong coupling constant involving four light-like Wilson lines. Our soft function belongs to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-10-04 Yaroslav Balytskyi , Jianbo Gao

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 calculate the unpolarized transverse momentum dependent fragmentation function (TMDFF) at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO), evaluating separately TMD soft factor and TMD collinear correlator. For the first time the cancellation of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-10-26 Miguel G. Echevarria , Ignazio Scimemi , Alexey Vladimirov

We compute the gluon transverse-momentum-dependent fragmentation function (TMDFF) at next-to-leading order (NLO) into heavy quarkonium in the color-octet $^3S_1^{[8]}$ channel, based on the NRQCD factorization approach. The spurious…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-01-02 Miguel G. Echevarria , Samuel F. Romera , Ignazio Scimemi

We compute the two-loop soft function for the associated production of a top quark and a $W$ boson near the threshold, where the invariant mass of the $tW$ system approaches the collider energy. We employ the reverse unitarity technique and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-23 Jia-Le Ding , Hai Tao Li , Jian Wang

In this proceeding we consider QCD radiative corrections to the production of colourless high-mass systems in hadron collisions. At small transverse momentum the logarithmically-enhanced contributions can be organized to all perturbative…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-07-21 Leandro Cieri

We calculate threshold soft-gluon corrections to total cross sections and transverse momentum distributions for bottom and charm quark production in fixed-target experiments, considering both pp and pi- p interactions. We investigate the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-12-10 Nikolaos Kidonakis , Ramona Vogt

We investigate the transverse momentum resummation for top quark pair production at hadron colliders using the soft-collinear effective theory and the heavy-quark effective theory. We derive the factorization formula for $t\bar{t}$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-10-30 Hai Tao Li , Chong Sheng Li , Ding Yu Shao , Li Lin Yang , Hua Xing Zhu

We derive the hard functions for all 2->2 processes in massless QCD up to next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in the strong coupling constant. By employing the known one- and two-loop helicity amplitudes for these processes, we obtain…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-22 Alessandro Broggio , Andrea Ferroglia , Ben D. Pecjak , Zhibai Zhang

We study the factorization and resummation of the $t\bar{t}W^\pm$ production at hadron colliders. The cross section in the threshold limit can be factorized into a convolution of hard and soft functions and parton distribution functions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-14 Hai Tao Li , Chong Sheng Li , Shi Ang Li

We consider QCD radiative corrections to vector-boson production in hadron collisions. We present the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) result of the hard-collinear coefficient function for the all-order resummation of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-11 S. Catani , L. Cieri , D. de Florian , G. Ferrera , M. Grazzini
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