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The production of electroweak $Z$ bosons that decay to neutrinos and recoil against jets with large transverse momentum $p_\perp$ is an important background process to searches for dark matter at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). To fully…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-06-24 Hjalte Frellesvig , Kirill Kudashkin , Christopher Wever

We present the two-loop virtual QCD corrections to the scattering of massless distinct quarks in conventional dimensional regularisation. The structure of the infrared divergences agrees with that predicted by Catani while expressions for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 C. Anastasiou , E. W. N. Glover , C. Oleari , M. E. Tejeda-Yeomans

We compute the three-loop QCD corrections to the massive quark form factors with external vector, axial-vector, scalar and pseudo-scalar currents. All corrections with closed loops of massless fermions are included. The non-fermionic part…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-04 Roman N. Lee , Alexander V. Smirnov , Vladimir A. Smirnov , Matthias Steinhauser

We showcase the calculation of the master integrals needed for the two loop mixed QCD-QED virtual corrections to the neutral current Drell-Yan process $(q\bar{q}\rightarrow l^+ l^-)$. After establishing a basis of 51 master integrals, we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-11-12 Syed Mehedi Hasan , Ulrich Schubert

We present the two-loop virtual QCD corrections to the scattering of massless identical quarks, q qbar to q qbar, in conventional dimensional regularisation and using the MSbar scheme. The structure of the infrared divergences agrees with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 C. Anastasiou , E. W. N. Glover , C. Oleari , M. E. Tejeda-Yeomans

The planar two-loop scalar Feynman integrals contributing to the massive NNLO QCD corrections for $W$-boson pair production via quark-antiquark annihilation can be classified into three family branches, each of which is reduced to a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-16 Wen-Jie He , Ren-You Zhang , Liang Han , Yi Jiang , Zhe Li , Xiao-Feng Wang , Shu-Xiang Li , Pan-Feng Li , Qing-hai Wang

We numerically compute the two-loop QCD corrections to $Z\gamma$ production at the LHC mediated by light- and heavy-quark box loops. The calculation employs the pipeline of refs. arXiv:2407.18051 and arXiv:2510.18801, which performs Monte…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-04 Dario Kermanschah , Matilde Vicini

We compute the master integrals relevant for the two-loop corrections to pseudo-scalar quarkonium and leptonium production and decay. We present both analytic and high-precision numerical results. The analytic expressions are given in terms…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-11-18 Samuel Abreu , Matteo Becchetti , Claude Duhr , Melih A. Ozcelik

We present the computation of the two-loop form factors for diphoton production in the quark annihilation channel. These quantities are relevant for the NNLO QCD corrections to diphoton production at LHC recently presented in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-23 Matteo Becchetti , Roberto Bonciani , Leandro Cieri , Federico Coro , Federico Ripani

We report on the analytic calculation of the second-order QCD corrections to semi-inclusive hadron production in electron-positron annihilation. The calculation of the single-particle inclusive cross-section in time-like kinematics is…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-12-22 Alexander Mitov , Sven-Olaf Moch

In this paper, we present analytical results for the two-loop QCD corrections to the production of two partons or a photon and a parton in hadronic collisions, mediated by loops of massive quarks. These amplitudes involve Feynman integrals…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-22 Federico Coro , Christoph Nega , Lorenzo Tancredi , Fabian J. Wagner

We evaluate the planar two-loop QCD diagrams contributing to the leading color coefficient of the heavy-quark pair production cross section, in the quark-antiquark annihilation channel. We obtain the leading color coefficient in an analytic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-25 R. Bonciani , A. Ferroglia , T. Gehrmann , C. Studerus

We compute the two-loop corrections to the helicity amplitudes for the coupling of a massive vector boson to a massless quark-antiquark pair and a gluon, accounting for vector and axial-vector couplings of the vector boson and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-19 Thomas Gehrmann , Tiziano Peraro , Lorenzo Tancredi

We describe the calculation of all planar master integrals that are needed for the computation of NNLO QCD corrections to the production of two off-shell vector bosons in hadron collisions. The most complicated representatives of integrals…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-18 Johannes M. Henn , Kirill Melnikov , Vladimir A. Smirnov

We compute the three-loop QCD corrections to the massive quark-anti-quark-photon form factors $F_1$ and $F_2$ in the large-$N_c$ limit. The analytic results are expressed in terms of Goncharov polylogarithms. This allows for a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-03-08 Johannes Henn , Alexander V. Smirnov , Vladimir A. Smirnov , Matthias Steinhauser

We review in some detail the QCD corrections to the measurement of the forward-backward charge asymmetry of heavy quarks in the $\mathrm{e^+e^-\rightarrow Q\overline{Q}(g)}$ process at the Z pole. We show that the size of these corrections…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-03 Juan Alcaraz Maestre

We present the two-loop master integrals relevant to the ${\mathcal O}(\alpha \alpha_s)$-corrections to the decay $H \rightarrow b \bar{b}$ through a $H t \bar{t}$-coupling. We keep the full dependence on the heavy particle masses, but…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-06-26 Ekta Chaubey , Stefan Weinzierl

The four-loop QCD corrections to the electroweak $\rho$-parameter arising from top and bottom quark loops are computed. Specifically we evaluate the missing ``non-singlet'' piece. Using algebraic methods the amplitude is reduced to a set of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 K. G. Chetyrkin , M. Faisst , J. H. Kühn , P. Maierhoefer , C. Sturm

We compute the two-loop master integrals for non-leptonic heavy-to-heavy decays analytically in a recently-proposed canonical basis. For this genuine two-loop, two-scale problem we first derive a basis for the master integrals that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-20 Tobias Huber , Susanne Krankl

We describe the calculation of the three-loop QCD corrections to quark and gluon form factors. The relevant three-loop Feynman diagrams are evaluated and the resulting three-loop Feynman integrals are reduced to a small set of known master…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-15 T. Gehrmann , E. W. N. Glover , T. Huber , N. Ikizlerli , C. Studerus