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We present results for threshold resummation of the invariant mass distribution, for on-shell production of a pair of $W$-bosons at next-to-next-to-leading order + next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic (NNLO+NNLL) accuracy in QCD. Owing to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-30 Pulak Banerjee , Chinmoy Dey , M. C. Kumar , Vaibhav Pandey

We study the decays into six quarks of off-shell pairs of W bosons produced in electron-positron annihilations, through the O(as^2) order in the strong coupling constant. We give explicit helicity amplitude formulae. We present numerical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-13 S. Moretti

The electroweak O(alpha) contribution to the resonant single W production in a general 4-fermion process is discussed with particular emphasis on a gauge invariant decomposition into a QED-like and weak part. The cross section in the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Doreen Wackeroth , Wolfgang Hollik

The first complete calculation of the next-to-leading-order electroweak corrections to four-lepton production at the LHC is presented, where all off-shell effects of intermediate Z bosons and photons are taken into account. Focusing on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-04-27 B. Biedermann , A. Denner , S. Dittmaier , L. Hofer , B. Jäger

The W-fusion scattering process W+W- --> ZZ for off-shell W bosons is studied, focusing on the issue of its high-energy behaviour which is known to be anomalous. It is shown that the unitarity violating terms can be isolated and extracted…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-13 K. Philippides , W. J. Stirling

First correction to the high-energy asymptotics of the total $e^+e^-$ photoproduction cross section in the electric field of a heavy atom is obtained with the exact account of this field. The consideration is based on the use of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 R. N. Lee , A. I. Milstein , V. M. Strakhovenko

We present results of a computation of NLO QCD corrections to the production of an off-shell top--antitop pair in association with an off-shell $\text{W}^+$ boson in proton--proton collisions. As the calculation is based on the full matrix…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-21 Ansgar Denner , Giovanni Pelliccioli

The processes of muons (tau) and charged pions pairs production at electron-positron annihilation with first order radiative corrections are considered. The calculation results are presented assuming the energies of final particles (cms…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Yu. M. Bystritskiy , G. V. Fedotovich , F. V. Ignatov , E. A. Kuraev

This talk summarizes the first calculation of the next-to-leading-order electroweak corrections to W-boson + jet hadroproduction including leptonic W-boson decays [1]. The W-boson resonance is treated consistently using the complex-mass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 Ansgar Denner , Stefan Dittmaier , Tobias Kasprzik , Alexander Mück

The discrepancy between the CDF measurement and the Standard Model theoretical prediction for the $W$-boson mass underscores the importance of conducting high-precision studies on the $W$ boson, which is one of the predominant objectives of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-09 Zhe Li , Ren-You Zhang , Shu-Xiang Li , Xiao-Feng Wang , Wen-Jie He , Liang Han , Yi Jiang , Qing-hai Wang

We calculate the gauge-boson pairs $W^-Z$, $W^-\gamma$, $W^+W^-$, $ZZ$ productions in the $e^- \gamma$ collisions, where the photon beam is realized by the laser back-scattering method. These processes are important tests for the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-22 Kingman Cheung

We present a calculation of the next-to-leading-order electroweak corrections to W+\gamma\ production, including the leptonic decay of the W boson and taking into account all off-shell effects of the W boson, where the finite width of the W…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-11-13 Ansgar Denner , Stefan Dittmaier , Markus Hecht , Christian Pasold

The cross-section for $\gamma\gamma\to W^+ W^-$ with arbitrary polarized photons and W bosons is calculated within the electroweak Standard Model including the complete virtual and soft-photonic ${\cal O}(\alpha)$ corrections. We present a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Denner , S. Dittmaier , R. Schuster

The differential cross-sections for processes of the type e+ e- to W+ W- to l nu q anti-q are determined with account of background contributions and of anomalous triple gauge boson couplings. Analytic expressions for dsigma/ds1 ds2…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-13 Jochen Biebel , Tord Riemann

We compute QCD radiative corrections to the continuum production of a pair of Z-bosons in the annihilation of two gluons. We only consider the contribution of the top quark loops and we treat them assuming that $m_t$ is much larger than any…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-24 Kirill Melnikov , Matthew Dowling

We performed a detailed analysis of the process $e^+e^-\to \ell \nu q\bar{q}'$ where we included all tree level Feynman diagrams that contribute to this final state. We studied the sensitivity of this process to anomalous trilinear gauge…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-01-15 Mikulas Gintner , Stephen Godfrey , Gilles Couture

The processes of production and subsequent decay of W- and Z-bosons in $e^+ e^-$ collisions are considered in a recently proposed modified perturbation theory (PT), based on a direct expansion of probabilities instead of amplitudes. In such…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-01-07 M. L. Nekrasov

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

The next-to-leading order QCD corrections to W gamma production in association with two jets via vector boson fusion are calculated, including the leptonic decay of the W with full off-shell effects and spin correlations. The process lends…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-01-15 Francisco Campanario , Nicolas Kaiser , Dieter Zeppenfeld

Precision measurement for the production of a $Z$-boson in association with two photons is important for investigating the Higgs boson and exploring new physics at the International Linear Collider. It could be used to study the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-02-10 Zhang Yu , Guo Lei , Ma Wen-Gan , Zhang Ren-You , Chen Chong , Li Xiao-Zhou