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We present the leading-color two-loop QCD corrections for the scattering of four partons and a $W$ boson, including its leptonic decay. The amplitudes are assembled from the planar two-loop helicity amplitudes for four partons and a vector…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-04-12 S. Abreu , F. Febres Cordero , H. Ita , M. Klinkert , B. Page , V. Sotnikov

Future electron-position colliders, such as CEPC and FCC-ee, have the capability to dramatically improve the experimental precision for W and Z-boson masses and couplings. This would enable indirect probes of physics beyond the Standard…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-08-26 Lisong Chen , Ayres Freitas

In processes at the energy much higher than electroweak scale, weak boson mass act as the infrared cutoff in weak boson loops and resulting Sudakov log corrections can be as large as 10%. Since electroweak theory is off-diagonally broken…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-23 Hiroyuki Kawamura

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 compute the eighth-order fermionic corrections involving two and three closed massless fermion loops to the anomalous magnetic moment of the muon. The required four-loop on-shell integrals are classified and explicit analytical results…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-12 Roman Lee , Peter Marquard , Alexander V. Smirnov , Vladimir A. Smirnov , Matthias Steinhauser

We describe predictions for top-quark pair differential distributions at hadron colliders, which combine state-of-the-art NNLO QCD calculations and NLO electroweak corrections together with double resummation at NNLL$'$ accuracy of…

We compute the two-loop mixed QCD-Electroweak (QCD-EW) corrections to the production of a Higgs boson and a gluon in gluon fusion. The relevant four-point functions with internal massive propagators are expressed as multiple polylogarithms…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-09 Marco Bonetti , Erik Panzer , Vladimir A. Smirnov , Lorenzo Tancredi

We present the Master Integrals needed for the calculation of the two-loop QCD corrections to the forward-backward asymmetry of a quark-antiquark pair produced in electron-positron annihilation events. The abelian diagrams entering in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Bonciani , P. Mastrolia , E. Remiddi

QCD corrections to the electron positron annihilation cross-section into hadrons and to the hadronic $Z$ boson decay rate are reviewed. Formal developments are introduced in a form particularly suited for practical applications. These…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 K. G. Chetyrkin , J. H. Kühn , A. Kwiatkowski

In this paper, we analyze the top-quark decay $t\to Wb$ up to next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order (N$^{3}$LO) QCD corrections. For the purpose, we first adopt the principle of maximum conformality (PMC) to deal with the initial pQCD…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-11-22 Jiang Yan , Xing-Gang Wu , Hua Zhou , Hong-Tai Li , Jing-Hao Shan

The paper discusses the two-loop (NNLO) electroweak radiative corrections to the parity violating electron-electron scattering asymmetry induced by squaring one-loop diagrams. The calculations are relevant for the ultra-precise 11 GeV…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-30 A. Aleksejevs , S. Barkanova , Y. Kolomensky , E. Kuraev , V. Zykunov

We investigate the one-loop supersymmetric QCD (SUSY-QCD) and electroweak (SUSY-EW) corrections to the top quark decay into a b-quark and a longitudinal or transverse W-boson. The corrections are presented in terms of the longitudinal ratio…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-23 Junjie Cao , Robert J. Oakes , Fei Wang , Jin Min Yang

The next-to-leading-order electroweak corrections to $pp\to l^+l^-/\bar\nu\nu+\gamma+X$ production, including all off-shell effects of intermediate Z bosons in the complex-mass scheme, are calculated for LHC energies, revealing the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-23 Ansgar Denner , Stefan Dittmaier , Markus Hecht , Christian Pasold

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 the NNLO QCD corrections for the hadroproduction of a pair of off-shell photons in the limit of a large number of quark flavors. We perform a reduction of the two-loop amplitude to master integrals and calculate the latter…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-22 Charalampos Anastasiou , Julian Cancino , Federico Chavez , Claude Duhr , Achilleas Lazopoulos , Bernhard Mistlberger , Romain Mueller

The $\alpha m_t^2/m_W^2$ order supersymmetric electroweak corrections arising from loops of chargino, neutralino, and squark to top quark pair production by $gg$ fusion at LHC are calculated in the minimal supersymmetric model. We found…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-01-17 Hong-Yi Zhou , Chong-Sheng Li

QCD corrections to $e^+e^- \ra WW \ra q_1 \bar q_1 q_2 \bar q_2$ are computed and presented in a form which allows to impose realistic cuts on the structure of the observed events. QCD radiation substantially modifies the jet--jet invariant…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 E. Maina , M. Pizzio

We present the first computation of the full next-to-leading-order QCD and electroweak corrections to the WZ scattering process at the LHC. All off-shell, gauge-boson-decay, and interference effects are taken into account for the process…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-07-24 Ansgar Denner , Stefan Dittmaier , Philipp Maierhöfer , Mathieu Pellen , Christopher Schwan

We present the electroweak corrections for the production of a photon pair through gluon fusion, focusing on the contribution from the first two generations of quarks. The two-loop amplitude is calculated using a series of projection…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-09 Gabriele Fiore , Ciaran Williams

We discuss some recent developments in the evaluation of the QCD corrections to $\Delta\rho$, their interpretation, an estimate of the theoretical error, and its effect on electroweak physics.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Alberto Sirlin