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We present compact analytic expressions for all one-loop helicity amplitudes contributing to ttbar production at hadron colliders. Using recently developed generalised unitarity methods and a traditional Feynman based approach we produce a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-10-06 Simon Badger , Ralf Sattler , Valery Yundin

We present results for the two-loop helicity amplitudes entering the NLO QCD corrections to the production of a Higgs boson in association with a $Z$-boson in gluon fusion. The two-loop integrals, involving massive top quarks, are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-03-18 Long Chen , Gudrun Heinrich , Stephen P. Jones , Matthias Kerner , Jonas Klappert , Johannes Schlenk

We present the first fully differential next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) QCD calculation for the production of a top-antitop quark pair in association with a Higgs boson ($t \bar t H$) at hadron colliders. The computation is exact,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-27 Simone Devoto , Massimiliano Grazzini , Stefan Kallweit , Javier Mazzitelli , Chiara Savoini

We present a complete set of analytic helicity amplitudes for top quark pair production via gluon fusion at two-loops in QCD. For the first time, we include corrections due to massive fermion loops which give rise to integrals over elliptic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-14 Simon Badger , Ekta Chaubey , Heribertus Bayu Hartanto , Robin Marzucca

Recent progress in our understanding of infrared singularities of multi-parton amplitudes has shown that the simplest form of Regge factorization for high-energy gauge-theory amplitudes fails starting at next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-17 Vittorio Del Duca , Giulio Falcioni , Lorenzo Magnea , Leonardo Vernazza

We present the two-loop helicity amplitudes for the scattering of massless quarks in QCD. We use projector techniques to compute the coefficients of the general four-quark amplitude at up to two-loops in conventional dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 E. W. N. Glover

We present the complete two-loop corrections in massless QCD for the production of two photons and a jet, taking into account all color structures. In particular, we analytically compute all two-loop helicity amplitudes for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-05 Bakul Agarwal , Federico Buccioni , Andreas von Manteuffel , Lorenzo Tancredi

We perform an analytic calculation of the one-loop amplitude for the W-boson mediated process 0 \to d u-bar Q Q-bar l-bar l, retaining the mass for the quark Q. The momentum of each of the massive quarks is expressed as the sum of two…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-18 Simon Badger , John M. Campbell , R. K. Ellis

We address the analytic computation of the two-loop scattering amplitudes for the production of two photons in parton-parton scattering, mediated by loops of heavy quarks. Due to the presence of integrals of elliptic type, both partonic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-04 Matteo Becchetti , Federico Coro , Christoph Nega , Lorenzo Tancredi , Fabian J. Wagner

The sophistication of current predictions for $Z+$jet production at hadron colliders necessitates a re-evaluation of any approximations inherent in the theoretical calculations. In this paper we address one such issue, the inclusion of mass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-02-01 John M. Campbell , R. Keith Ellis

We present the analytical results of the two-loop amplitudes for hadronic $tW$ production, focusing on the leading color and light fermion-loop contributions. The calculation of the two-loop integrals is performed using the method of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-14 Long-Bin Chen , Liang Dong , Hai Tao Li , Zhao Li , Jian Wang , Yefan Wang

We study higher-order QCD corrections for the associated production of a top-antitop quark pair and a photon ($t{\bar t}\gamma$ production) in proton-proton collisions. We calculate the approximate NNLO cross section, with second-order…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-01 Nikolaos Kidonakis , Alberto Tonero

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 compute the one-loop QCD amplitudes for the decay of an off-shell vector boson with vector couplings into a quark-antiquark pair accompanied by two gluons keeping, for the first time, all orders in the number of colours. Together with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 J. M. Campbell , E. W. N. Glover , D. J. Miller

We present a leading colour computation of the double virtual contributions to top-quark pair production in association with a jet at a hadron collider at next-to-next-to-leading order in QCD. The finite remainders of the two-loop…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-15 Simon Badger , Matteo Becchetti , Colomba Brancaccio , Michał Czakon , Heribertus Bayu Hartanto , Rene Poncelet , Simone Zoia

We calculate the $gg\to\gamma\gamma$ amplitude by including the $t\bar t$ bound-state effects near their mass threshold. In terms of the non-relativistic expansion of the amplitude, the LO contribution is an energy-independent term in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-06-02 Sayaka Kawabata , Hiroshi Yokoya

We compute QCD corrections to the production of a ttbar pair in association with a hard photon at the Tevatron and the LHC. This process allows a direct measurement of the top quark electromagnetic couplings that, at the moment, are only…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-18 Kirill Melnikov , Andreas Scharf , Markus Schulze

We calculate the contribution of anomalous top-quark interaction with a gluon, photon, and $Z$-boson (FCNC) to $t \bar t$ pair production in hadronic collisions. Using the current data from Run~1 of the Tevatron we evaluate the upper limit…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-06-07 Yu. P. Gouz , S. R. Slabospitsky

We calculate the two-loop QCD corrections to $gg \to ZZ$ involving a closed top-quark loop. We present a new method to systematically construct linear combinations of Feynman integrals with a convergent parametric representation, where we…

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