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We present the first complete high-precision QCD corrections to the inclusive decay width $\mathrm{\Gamma}_t$, the $W$-helicity fractions $f_{\mathrm{L,R,0}}$ and semi-inclusive distributions for the top-quark decay process $t \rightarrow b…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-10 Long Chen , Xiang Chen , Xin Guan , Yan-Qing Ma

We compute two-loop corrections to the associated production of a Higgs boson with a $Z$ boson and to off-shell $Z$ boson pair production in the gluon fusion channel, mediated by a heavy quark. We perform deep expansions in the high-energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-10 Joshua Davies , Dominik Grau , Kay Schönwald , Matthias Steinhauser , Daniel Stremmer , Marco Vitti

Using a Generic spin basis, we present a general formalism of one-loop radiative corrections to the spin correlations in the top quark pair production at the Next Linear Collider, and calculate the O(\alpha_s) QCD corrections under the soft…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-23 Hong Xuan Liu , Chong Sheng Li , Zhen Jun Xiao

We consider QCD radiative corrections to the production of W and Z bosons in hadron collisions. We present a fully exclusive calculation up to next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in QCD perturbation theory. To perform this NNLO…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-02 S. Catani , L. Cieri , G. Ferrera , D. de Florian , M. Grazzini

Next-to-leading-order (NLO) quantum electrodynamics (QED) corrections to the production of muon and tau pairs in photon-photon collisions, $\gamma\gamma\to\mu^{+}\mu^{-},\tau^{+}\tau^{-}$, are calculated in the equivalent photon…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-19 Hua-Sheng Shao , David d'Enterria

The next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD corrections to top anti-top bottom anti-bottom (tTbB) production at the LHC reveal that the scale choice adopted in previous lowest-order simulations underestimates the tTbB cross section by a factor two.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-09 Axel Bredenstein , Ansgar Denner , Stefan Dittmaier , Stefano Pozzorini

In this article we evaluate mass corrections up to $O((m^2/q^2)^6)$ to the three-loop polarization function induced by an axial-vector current. Special emphasis is put on the evaluation of the singlet diagram which is absent in the vector…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-13 R. Harlander , M. Steinhauser

The production of two isolated photons in high-energy hadron collisions poses a challenge to perturbative QCD because of large corrections through next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO). We present novel next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-15 Michal Czakon , Felix Eschment , Terry Generet , Rene Poncelet

QCD one-loop corrections to the full gauge invariant set of electroweak diagrams describing the hadronic process $e^+ e^- \to u~\bar d~s~\bar c$ are computed. Four-jet shape variables for $WW$ events are studied at next-to-leading order and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-02-01 E. Maina , R. Pittau , M. Pizzio

We report the results of a computation of the full next-to-leading order QCD corrections to the production of two $b\bar{b}$ pairs at the LHC. This calculation at the parton level provides predictions for well separated $b$-jets. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-29 Nicolas Greiner , Alberto Guffanti , Thomas Reiter , Jürgen Reuter

Within the framework of nonrelativistic-QCD factorization, we calculate both the next-to-leading-order relativistic and QCD corrections to prompt $J/\psi$ pair production, with feeddown from $\psi(2S)$ mesons, via photon-photon collisions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-04-16 Zhi-Guo He , Xiao-Bo Jin , Bernd A. Kniehl , Rong Li

One-loop QCD corrections to the full gauge invariant set of electroweak diagrams describing the charged current processes $e^+ e^- \to u \bar d \mu \bar\nu_\mu$ (CC10), $e^+ e^- \to u \bar d e^- \bar\nu_e$ (CC20) and $e^+ e^- \to u \bar d s…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 E. Maina , R. Pittau , M. Pizzio

We calculate the electroweak corrections of the order $O({m_t^2\over v^2})$ to the QCD production of $t\bar{t}$ pairs via $q+qbar->t+tbar$ at hadron colliders and show that these corrections to the total production rate are small. This…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-25 C. Kao , G. A. Ladinsky , C. -P. Yuan

We calculate the $W^\pm\gamma j + X$-production cross sections at next-to-leading order QCD for Tevatron and LHC collisions. We include leptonic decays of the $W$ to light leptons, with all off-shell effects taken into account. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-17 F. Campanario , C. Englert , M. Spannowsky , D. Zeppenfeld

Triggered by the observation of four top-quark production at the LHC by the ATLAS and CMS collaboration we report on the calculation of the next-to-leading order QCD corrections to the Standard Model process $pp \to t\bar{t}t\bar{t}$ in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-06-24 Nikolaos Dimitrakopoulos , Malgorzata Worek

We present a complete description of top quark pair production in association with a jet in the dilepton channel. Our calculation is accurate to next-to-leading order in QCD (NLO) and includes all non-resonant diagrams, interferences and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-02-10 G. Bevilacqua , H. B. Hartanto , M. Kraus , M. Worek

Triple-W-boson production in proton-proton collisions allows for a direct access to the triple and quartic gauge couplings and provides a window to the mechanism of electroweak symmetry breaking. It is an important process to test the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-09-20 Stefan Dittmaier , Alexander Huss , Gernot Knippen

One loop QCD corrections to hadronic W decay are calculated for arbitrary W polarizations . The results are applied to W pair production and decay at LEP200. We focus on the corrections to angular distributions with particular emphasis on…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 K. J. Abraham , Bodo Lampe

We review recently derived NNLO QCD results for top-pair production at hadron colliders. We compare the size of the NNLO corrections in $q\bar q\to t\bar t+X$ with the LO and NLO ones, and address the question of convergence of perturbative…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-07-17 Peter Baernreuther , Michal Czakon , Alexander Mitov

We investigate the electromagnetic properties of the fully charm tetraquark states, particularly incorporating contributions from internal gluon radiations. The paper first presents analytical expressions for the next-to-leading-order (NLO)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-29 Xinran Liu , Yefan Wang , Ruilin Zhu