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We present a calculation of the complete electroweak O(alpha) corrections to pp/ppbar -> W+/- -> l+/- nu (l=e, mu) in the Standard Model of electroweak interactions, focusing on those corrections which do not contribute in the pole…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-23 U. Baur , D. Wackeroth

In heavy quarkonium production, the measured ratio $R_{c \bar c}=\sigma[J/\psi+ c\bar c + X]/\sigma[J/\psi +X]$ at B factories is much larger than existing theoretical predictions. To clarify this discrepancy, in nonrelativistic QCD (NRQCD)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-06-19 Yan-Qing Ma , Yu-Jie Zhang , Kuang-Ta Chao

In this dissertation, a complete calculation of QED radiative corrections is presented for total cross sections and forward- backward asymmetries for s-channel fermion pair production in e+e- annihilation with kinematical cuts to the final…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 M. A. Jack

We describe the calculation of the QCD contribution to same-sign $W$-pair production, $pp\to e^\pm \nu_e \mu^\pm \nu_\mu jj$, resumming all contributions scaling as $\alpha_W^4 \alpha_s^{2+k}\log^k(\hat s/p_\perp^2)$ [arXiv:2107.06818].…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-29 Jeppe R. Andersen , Bertrand Ducloué , Conor Elrick , Andreas Maier , Graeme Nail , Jennifer M. Smillie

We present the recent developments in the precision studies of W-pair and single-W processes in e+e- collisions achieved with the help of the KoralW and YFSWW3 Monte Carlo generators. We focus on the theoretical precision of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Skrzypek , S. Jadach , W. Placzek , B. F. L. Ward , Z. Was

We present numerical results on the recently completed $O(\alpha^2)$ initial state corrections to the process $e^+e^- \rightarrow \gamma^*/Z^*$, which is a central process at past and future high energy and high luminsoity colliders for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-01-08 J. Blümlein , A. De Freitas , C. G. Raab , K. Schönwald

We present a computation of QCD next-to-leading order virtual corrections to the top production and decay process at linear colliders. The top quarks are allowed to be off-shell and the production and decay subprocesses are treated…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Cosmin Macesanu

The total cross-sections of the reaction e+e- --> W+W-, as measured at LEP-II at centre-of-mass energies between 183 and 207 GeV are used to derive the upper limits on the parameters of CP-violating (P-odd and C-even) triple gauge-boson…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-17 A. E. Blinov , A. S. Rudenko

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

We investigate $e^+ e^- \to t\bar t$ by taking into account wave function distortion effects in the near-threshold region and interpolating the correction factor to the high-energy perturbative QCD region. The strong color attraction…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-25 Lali Chatterjee , Cheuk-Yin Wong

In this contribution, we present new results of next-to-leading order (NLO) electroweak corrections to the doubly polarized $W^+W^-$ production cross sections at the LHC, via the full leptonic final state. This calculation has been recently…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-27 Thi Nhung Dao , Duc Ninh Le

We discuss corrections from the elastic limit (partonic threshold) in hadronic hard-scattering cross sections. We show why these corrections can be large at all orders in perturbation theory, and describe their resummation to arbitrary…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Nikolaos Kidonakis , George Sterman

We study the full contributions at the leading order(LO) and QCD next-to-leading order(NLO) to the cross section of the \eewwbb process in the standard model(SM) at the ILC. In dealing the resonance problem we adopted the complex mass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Guo Lei , Ma Wen-Gan , Zhang Ren-You , Wang Shao-Ming

The cross-section for ZZ->ZZ with arbitrarily polarized Z bosons is calculated within the electroweak Standard Model including the complete O(alpha) corrections. We show the numerical importance of the radiative corrections and elaborate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 A. Denner , S. Dittmaier , T. Hahn

We calculate the second-order QCD corrections to the forward-backward asymmetry in $e^+e^-$ annihilation. Using the quark axis definition, we do not agree with either existing calculation, but the difference relative to one of them is small…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-02-03 Stefano Catani , Michael H. Seymour

We examine the leading order noncommutative corrections to the differential and total cross sections for e+ e- --> q q-bar. After averaging over the earth's rotation, the results depend on the latitude for the collider, as well as the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-21 Mansour Haghighat , Nobuchika Okada , Allen Stern

The complete QED corrections of O(alpha) to polarized Compton scattering are calculated for finite electron mass and including the real corrections induced by the processes e^- gamma -> e^- gamma gamma and e^- gamma -> e^- e^- e^+. All…

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

We analyze the second order QCD corrections to the fragmentation functions F_^H_k(x,Q^2) (k=T,L,A) which are measured in e^+~e^- annihilation From these fragmentation functions one can derive the integrated transverse (sigma_T),…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 W. L. van Neerven

The threshold behaviour of the cross section sigma(e+e- -> tau+tau-) is analysed, taking into account the known higher-order corrections. At present, this observable can be determined to next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in a combined…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-12-30 P. Ruiz-Femenia , A. Pich