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We study the mismatch between a full calculation of non-global single-logarithms in the large-N_c limit and an approximation based on free azimuthal averaging, and the consequent angular-ordered pattern of soft gluon radiation in QCD. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-10-27 Andrea Banfi , Gennaro Corcella , Mrinal Dasgupta

I present a master formula for the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) soft and virtual QCD corrections for any process in hadron-hadron and lepton-hadron colliders. The formula is derived from a unified threshold resummation formalism.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Nikolaos Kidonakis

To prepare for the next generation particle collider, likely to be a high-energy precision-frontier electron-positron machine, theoretical predictions must improve in tandem. One aspect in which it is necessary to build on the progress made…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-09 Lois Flower , Marek Schönherr

We compare fixed order and parton shower matched predictions for the process ${pp\rightarrow \ell^+\nu_{\ell} \ell^-\bar{\nu}_{\ell} \ell^{\pm}{\nu}_{\ell} b\bar{b}+X}$ at NLO in QCD, including the orders $\mathcal{O}(\alpha_s^3\alpha^6)$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-12-06 Jasmina Nasufi

We present theoretical predictions for the hadroproduction of t tbar W+, t tbar W- and t tbar Z at LHC as obtained by matching numerical computations at NLO accuracy in QCD with Shower Monte Carlo programs. The calculation is performed by…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-12-03 M. V. Garzelli , A. Kardos , C. G. Papadopoulos , Z. Trócsányi

We apply Continuous Normalizing Flows trained with the Flow Matching method to the problem of phase-space sampling in Monte Carlo event generation for high-energy collider physics. Focusing on lepton-pair and top quark pair production with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-07 Enrico Bothmann , Timo Janßen , Max Knobbe , Bernhard Schmitzer , Fabian Sinz

We present methods to achieve NLL+NLO accurate parton showering for processes with two coloured legs: neutral- and charged-current Drell-Yan, and Higgs production in $pp$ collisions, as well as DIS and $e^+e^-$ to jets. The methods include…

We present an NNLO-compatible subtraction scheme for computing QCD jet cross sections of hadron-initiated processes at NLO accuracy. The scheme is constructed specifically with those complications in mind, that emerge when extending the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-12-04 Gabor Somogyi

In this contribution recent results regarding the NLO electroweak corrections for vector boson production in association with jets are presented. Besides discussing the phenomenology of the fixed-order results, their corporation in existing…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-07 Marek Schönherr , Stefan Kallweit , Jonas M. Lindert , Stefano Pozzorini , Philipp Maierhöfer

In this article, we present a method to calculate a posteriori event weights at next-to-leading-order (NLO) QCD accuracy for a given jet event defined by the (anti-)$k_t$ algorithm relying on the conventional $2\to 1$ recombination. This is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-10-17 Manfred Kraus , Till Martini , Peter Uwer

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 are developing a consistent method to combine tree-level event generators for hadron collision interactions with those including one additional QCD radiation from the initial-state partons, based on the limited leading-log (LLL)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Odaka , Y. Kurihara

We present the first complete next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) QCD predictions for differential distributions in the top-quark pair production process at the LHC. Our results are derived from a fully differential partonic Monte Carlo…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-17 Michal Czakon , David Heymes , Alexander Mitov

We present a parton shower which implements the DGLAP evolution of parton densities and fragmentation functions at next-to-leading order precision up to effects stemming from local four-momentum conservation. The Monte-Carlo simulation is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-11-01 Stefan Höche , Frank Krauss , Stefan Prestel

We present a next-to-leading order (NLO) calculation of $t\bar{t}$ production in hadronic collisions interfaced to shower generators according to the POWHEG method. We start from an NLO result from previous work, obtained in the zero width…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-01-19 John M. Campbell , R. Keith Ellis , Paolo Nason , Emanuele Re

We calculate the inclusive production of charged hadrons in $\pbp$ collisions to next-to-leading order (NLO) in the QCD improved parton model using a new set of NLO fragmentation functions for charged pions and kaons. We predict…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-01 F. M. Borzumati , G. Kramer

In this work we perform the first ever calculation of jet event shapes at hadron colliders at next-to-next-to leading order (NNLO) in QCD. The inclusion of higher order corrections removes the shape difference observed between data and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-04-05 Manuel Alvarez , Josu Cantero , Michal Czakon , Javier Llorente , Alexander Mitov , Rene Poncelet

We address the problem of decomposing graphs in perturbative QCD into terms associated with particular regions. Motivated by asking how to incorporate next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD corrections in parton-shower algorithms, we require that:…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-02-03 J. C. Collins , F. Hautmann

We present the implementation of several processes at Next-to-Next-to Leading Order (NNLO) accuracy in QCD in the parton-level Monte Carlo program MCFM. The processes treated are $pp\to H$, $W^\pm$, $Z$, $W^\pm H$, $ZH$, $W^\pm\gamma$,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-07-29 John M. Campbell , R. Keith Ellis , Satyajit Seth

With the advent and recent extension of the BLHA standard to interface Monte Carlo event generators and one-loop matrix element providers, the Herwig++ event generator has expanded its range of applicability to a multitude of underlying…