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In this paper, I study final state QCD radiative corrections to off-shell single top production via decaying $W$ at hadron collider energies. The tree level Breit-Wigner distribution of the produced top invariant mass is distorted by final…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 R. Pittau

We calculate the next-to-leading order (NLO) quantum chromodynamics (QCD) corrections to double charmonium production processes $e^+e^-\to\gamma^*\to\eta_c+h_c(1P)/\psi_{1,2}(1D)$ within the non-relativistic QCD (NRQCD) factorization…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-08-03 Long-Bin Chen , Jun Jiang , Cong-Feng Qiao

We study higher-order QCD corrections beyond NLO for the associated production of a photon with a $W$ boson ($\gamma W^+$ and $\gamma W^-$ production) at the Large Hadron Collider. We calculate the NNLO soft-plus-virtual QCD corrections as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-11 Nikolaos Kidonakis , Alberto Tonero

The computation of perturbative corrections to processes involving heavy quarks is crucial for the precision program of the LHC and future colliders. In this article, we describe a powerful approach to calculate higher-orders in QCD…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-11-17 German F. R. Sborlini

We consider top quark pair production in association with a hard jet through next-to-leading order in perturbative QCD. Top quark decays are treated in the narrow width approximation and spin correlations are retained throughout the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 Kirill Melnikov , Andreas Scharf , Markus Schulze

We review theoretical calculations for top-quark production that include complete next-to-leading-order QCD corrections as well as higher-order soft-gluon corrections from threshold resummation. We discuss in detail the differences between…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-30 Nikolaos Kidonakis , Ben D. Pecjak

Using non-relativistic effective theories, new next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) QCD corrections to the total $t\bar t$ production cross section at the Linear Collider have been calculated recently. In this article the NNLO calculations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. H. Hoang , M. Beneke , K. Melnikov , T. Nagano , A. Ota , A. A. Penin , A. A. Pivovarov , A. Signer , V. A. Smirnov , Y. Sumino , T. Teubner , O. Yakovlev , A. Yelkhovsky

We construct a specific formalism for calculating the one-loop virtual corrections for standard model processes with an arbitrary number of external legs. The procedure explicitly separates the infrared and ultraviolet divergences…

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

I review recent advances in the calculation of higher-order soft-gluon corrections for a variety of QCD, Higgs, and SUSY processes in hadron colliders. A unified approach and master formulas for next-to-next-to-leading order soft and…

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

Real and virtual corrections in NNLO QCD require multi-dimensional integrals with overlapping singularities. We first review ideas and methods which have been proposed for performing such computations. We then present a new method for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-18 Charalampos Anastasiou , Franz Herzog , Achilleas Lazopoulos

This paper describes the calculation of the next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD corrections to massive color-octet vector boson pair production at hadron colliders. As a concrete framework, a two-site coloron model with an internal parity is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-02-27 Ayres Freitas , Daniel Wiegand

We consider Z' and W' models recently proposed to explain the top forward-backward asymmetry at the Tevatron. We present the next-to-leading order QCD corrections to associated production of such vector bosons together with top quarks at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-20 J. Adelman , J. Ferrando , C. D. White

We compute the NLO QCD corrections to the loop-induced gluon fusion contribution in $W^+W^-$ production at the LHC. We consider the full leptonic process $pp\to \ell^+\ell^{\prime\, -}\nu_{\ell}{\bar\nu}_{\ell^\prime}+X$, by including…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-04-01 Massimiliano Grazzini , Stefan Kallweit , Marius Wiesemann , Jeong Yeon Yook

We have calculated the decay width of the process $t \to \tilde{g} \tilde{t}_1$ including one loop QCD corrections. We found that the decay width of the such process could be comparable with that of the standard channel $t \to b W^+$, and,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Lian You Shan , Shou Hua Zhu

We review recent results on next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD and electroweak (EW) corrections for processes involving off-shell top quarks. For the off-shell production of two top quarks that decay leptonically, the full NLO EW corrections…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-27 Ansgar Denner , Jean-Nicolas Lang , Mathieu Pellen , Sandro Uccirati

The semileptonic decays of polarised top quarks are analysed for a general chirality-conserving tbW vertex. We calculate double differential distributions for the charged lepton and the neutrino to order \alpha_s in the QCD coupling. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Werner Bernreuther , Michael Fuecker , Yoshiaki Umeda

We compute the two-loop massless QCD corrections to the amplitude of Higgs boson decay to bottom quark pair and a gluon ($H \rightarrow b + \bar{b} + g$) in the higher powers of the dimensional regularization parameter $\epsilon$. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-05-28 Pulak Banerjee , Chinmoy Dey , M. C. Kumar , Vaibhav Pandey , V. Ravindran

Radiative corrections in pole approximation, which are based on the leading contribution in a systematic expansion of amplitudes about resonance poles, naturally decompose into factorizable corrections attributed to the production or decay…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-07 Stefan Dittmaier , Alexander Huss , Jan Schwarz

We consider the two-loop corrections to the $HW^+W^-$ vertex at order $\alpha\alpha_s$. We construct a canonical basis for the two-loop integrals using the Baikov representation and the intersection theory. By solving the $\epsilon$-form…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-01-07 Chichuan Ma , Yuxuan Wang , Xiaofeng Xu , Li Lin Yang , Bin Zhou

Four-fermion processes with a particle lost in the beam pipe are studied at LEP to perform precision tests of the electroweak theory. Leading higher-order QED corrections to such processes are analyzed within the framework of the Structure…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-01-07 G. Montagna , M. Moretti , O. Nicrosini , A. Pallavicini , F. Piccinini