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Radiative Corrections to $W$ Pair Production and effects of finite width of the $W$ bosons are studied using the Monte Carlo {\tt WOPPER}. As an example the influence of QED radiative corrections on the reconstruction of the $W$ helicities…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Anlauf , H. Dahmen , A. Himmler , P. Manakos , T. Mannel

The structure function approach and the parton picture, developed for the theoretical description of the deep inelastic electron-proton scattering, also proved to be very effective for calculation of radiative corrections in Quantum…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-28 V. S. Fadin , R. E. Gerasimov

We compute mixed QCD-electroweak corrections to the fully-differential production of an on-shell $W$ boson. Decays of $W$ bosons to lepton pairs are included in the leading order approximation. The required two-loop virtual corrections are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-03 Arnd Behring , Federico Buccioni , Fabrizio Caola , Maximillian Delto , Matthieu Jaquier , Kirill Melnikov , Raoul Röntsch

I discuss radiative corrections due to the emission of photons from quarks which contribute to deep inelastic lepton--nucleon scattering as well as to $pp$ collisions at high energies. These corrections are dominated by quark-mass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 H. Spiesberger

Several methods to improve the parton-shower description of hard processes by an injection of matrix-element-based information have been presented over the years. In this article we study (re)weighting schemes for the first/hardest…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-18 Richard Corke , Torbjörn Sjöstrand

We present results for the QCD production of Z/{\gamma} + 2 jets matched with parton showers using the POWHEG method. Some technicalities relevant for the merging of NLO corrections for this process with parton showers are discussed, and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-04 Emanuele Re

Calibrating the absolute energy scale of air showers initiated by ultra-high energy cosmic rays is an important experimental issue. Currently, the corresponding systematic uncertainty amounts to 14-21% using the fluorescence technique. Here…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-19 Piotr Homola , Markus Risse

We present an implementation of Higgs-boson production in association with a hard, isolated photon via vector-boson fusion in the framework of the POWHEG BOX for the consistent matching of next-to-leading order QCD corrections with parton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-14 Barbara Jäger , Simon Reinhardt

We introduce a technique for the next-to-leading order accurate simulation of $e^+e^-\to W^+W^-b\bar{b}$ that respects the resonant nature of the process above and near the top-quark pair production threshold. The parton-shower evolution,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-16 Stefan Höche , Daniel Reichelt

We discuss the necessary steps for implementing an angularly ordered (AO) electroweak (EW) parton shower in Herwig 7 multi-purpose event generator. This includes calculating the helicity-dependent quasi-collinear EW branching functions that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-26 M. R. Masouminia , P. Richardson

The aim of this work is to describe in detail the POWHEG method, first suggested by one of the authors, for interfacing parton-shower generators with NLO QCD computations. We describe the method in its full generality, and then specify its…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-13 Stefano Frixione , Paolo Nason , Carlo Oleari

We introduce photon and gluon propagators in which the scalar polarization component is subtracted systematically by making use of the BRST invariance of the off-shell vector boson created from physical on-shell states. The propagator has…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-07-15 Kaoru Hagiwara , Junichi Kanzaki , Kentarou Mawatari

We present a process-independent technique to consistently combine next-to-leading order parton-level calculations of varying jet multiplicity and parton showers. Double counting is avoided by means of a modified truncated shower scheme.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-05 Stefan Hoeche , Frank Krauss , Marek Schonherr , Frank Siegert

We have implemented a systematic procedure for combining parton shower algorithms with next-to-leading order QCD calculations for the case of jet production in deep-inelastic electron-proton scattering. Using this method we have computed…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 B. Pötter , T. Schörner

An estimate is presented of the leading radiative corrections to low energy electroweak precision measurements from strong nonresonant WW scattering at the TeV energy scale. The estimate is based on a novel representation of nonresonant…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Michael S. Chanowitz

The pion pair production in $e^+ e^-$ annihilation at flavour factories plays a crucial role in the determination of the hadronic contribution to the muon anomalous magnetic moment. The recent CMD-3 measurement of the pion form factor via…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-03 E. Budassi , C. M. Carloni Calame , M. Ghilardi , A. Gurgone , G. Montagna , M. Moretti , O. Nicrosini , F. Piccinini , F. P. Ucci

Modern parton showers are built using one of two models: dipole showers or angular ordered showers. Both have distinct strengths and weaknesses. Dipole showers correctly account for wide-angle, soft gluon emissions and track the leading…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-09-02 Jeffrey R. Forshaw , Jack Holguin , Simon Plätzer

Radiative corrections to the parity-violating asymmetry measured in elastic electron-proton scattering are analyzed in the framework of the Standard Model. We include the complete set of one-loop contributions to one quark current…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Barkanova , A. Aleksejevs , P. G. Blunden

We present a calculation of next-to-leading order QCD corrections to gamma jj production via weak-boson fusion at a hadron collider in the form of a flexible parton-level Monte Carlo program which allows us to study cross sections and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 B. Jager

An approach to calculate radiative corrections to unpolarized cross section of semi-inclusive electroproduction is developed. An explicit formulae for the lowest order QED radiative correction are presented. Detailed numerical analysis is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-13 I. Akushevich , N. Shumeiko , A. Soroko