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The study of top-quark properties will be a central aspect of the physics programme of any future lepton collider. In this article, we investigate the production of top-quark pairs in the semi-leptonic decay channel in $\rm e^+e^-$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-05-24 Ansgar Denner , Mathieu Pellen , Giovanni Pelliccioli

We calculate the complete NLO QCD corrections to loop-induced $gg \rightarrow ZZ$ production including full top-quark mass effects. The two-loop virtual corrections are obtained by combining analytic results for the massless,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-27 Bakul Agarwal , Stephen Jones , Matthias Kerner , Andreas von Manteuffel

We consider QCD radiative corrections to $W^+W^-b {\bar b}$ production with leptonic decays and massive bottom quarks at the LHC. We perform an exact next-to-leading order (NLO) calculation within the $q_T$-subtraction formalism and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-07-17 Luca Buonocore , Massimiliano Grazzini , Stefan Kallweit , Jonas M. Lindert , Chiara Savoini

We present the QCD radiative corrections to the full off-shell $\rm t\bar{t}W^+$ production, considering a final state with three charged leptons, two b jets and missing energy. All interferences, off-shell effects and spin correlations are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-16 Ansgar Denner , Giovanni Pelliccioli

The semi-inclusive decay processes of a top quark into a charged pseudo-scalar meson and a jet are studied within the framework of QCD factorization. The leading power of the decay matrix elements can be factorized into heavy-to-light quark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-04-02 Long-Shun Lu , Lei-Yi Li , Cai-Dian Lü

We discuss QCD radiative corrections to the production of a heavy neutral resonance $Z'$ at the LHC assuming that it decays into a $ t\bar t$ final state. Compared to previous studies, our computation includes top quark decays as well as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-03-14 Fabrizio Caola , Kirill Melnikov , Markus Schulze

We discuss the results for the four-top quark production process at the LHC at NLO accuracy in perturbative QCD for the $3\ell$ decay channel. The QCD corrections are applied in both the production and the decay stages of the four top…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-04 Nikolaos Dimitrakopoulos

In this article we calculate the next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD corrections for single on-shell top-quark production in association with two jets at proton-proton colliders. The tW channel is assumed to be measured independently. The QCD…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-29 Stefan Mölbitz , Le Duc Ninh , Peter Uwer

We report on the calculation of the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) QCD corrections to the production of two gluonic jets at hadron colliders. In previous work, we discussed gluonic dijet production in the gluon-gluon channel. Here,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-07-22 James Currie , Aude Gehrmann-De Ridder , Thomas Gehrmann , Nigel Glover , Joao Pires , Steven Wells

The order $\alpha_s^2 \alpha$ mixed QCD and weak corrections to top quark pair production by quark antiquark annihilation are computed, keeping the full dependence on the $t$ and $\bar t$ spins. We determine the contributions to the cross…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 W. Bernreuther , M. Fuecker , Z. G. Si

In this paper we compute the QCD corrections for the triple Higgs boson production cross section via gluon fusion, within the heavy-top approximation. We present, for the first time, analytical results for the next-to-leading order…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-03-08 Daniel de Florian , Javier Mazzitelli

The top quark pairs produced at a polarized muon collider are in a (nearly) pure spin configuration. This result holds for all center-of-mass energies, and is insensitive to the next-to-leading order QCD radiative corrections. The decay…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Gregory Mahlon , Stephen Parke

Crucial information on the coupling of the Higgs boson to bottom quarks is expected from Higgs production in association with a forward tagging jet at a future high-energy lepton-proton collider. In order to control the theoretical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-05-28 B. Jager

Top quark pair production by (polarized) gamma gamma collisions offers an interesting testing ground of the Standard Model and its extensions. In this Letter we present results for differential cross sections of top quark pair production…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Brandenburg , Z. G. Si

We report on a new calculation of the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) QCD radiative corrections to the inclusive production of top-quark pairs at hadron colliders. The calculation is performed by using the $q_T$ subtraction formalism…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-04-03 Stefano Catani , Simone Devoto , Massimiliano Grazzini , Stefan Kallweit , Javier Mazzitelli , Hayk Sargsyan

We compute the real-radiation corrections to Higgs boson pair production at next-to-next-to-leading order in QCD, in an expansion for large top quark mass. We concentrate on the radiative corrections to the interference contribution from…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-26 Joshua Davies , Florian Herren , Go Mishima , Matthias Steinhauser

We compute next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD corrections to the production of two massive electroweak bosons in gluon fusion. We consider both the prompt production process $gg \to VV$ and the production mediated by an exchange of an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-24 Fabrizio Caola , Matthew Dowling , Kirill Melnikov , Raoul Röntsch , Lorenzo Tancredi

An algorithm for an improved description of final-state QCD radiation is introduced. It is matched to the first-order matrix elements for gluon emission in a host of decays, for processes within the Standard Model and the Minimal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Torbjörn Sjöstrand

We compute next-to-leading order QCD corrections to the top-bottom interference contribution to H+j production at the LHC. To achieve this, we combine the recent computation of the two-loop amplitudes for gg -> Hg and qg -> Hq, performed in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-06-28 Jonas M. Lindert , Kirill Melnikov , Lorenzo Tancredi , Chris Wever

The status of top quark searches will be briefly reviewed. Theoretical predictions for the top quark decay rate are presented including QCD and electroweak radiative corrections. The possibilities for quarkonium searches at an hadron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 J. H. Kühn