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We compute two-loop corrections to the associated production of a Higgs boson with a $Z$ boson and to off-shell $Z$ boson pair production in the gluon fusion channel, mediated by a heavy quark. We perform deep expansions in the high-energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-10 Joshua Davies , Dominik Grau , Kay Schönwald , Matthias Steinhauser , Daniel Stremmer , Marco Vitti

A complete next-to-leading order calculation of longitudinally polarized heavy quark photoproduction is presented. All results of the purturbative calculation are given in detail. For reactions and energies of interest cross sections…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 Z. Merebashvili , A. P. Contogouris , G. Grispos

We report on the computation of the connected light quark vacuum polarization with 2+1+1 flavors of HISQ fermions at the physical point and its contribution to the muon anomalous magnetic moment. Three ensembles, generated by the MILC…

High Energy Physics - Lattice · Physics 2020-03-27 Christopher Aubin , Thomas Blum , Cheng Tu , Maarten Golterman , Chulwoo Jung , Santiago Peris

The rate for the production of massive fermions radiated off a pair of massless fermions is calculated analytically. Combined with the analytic calculation of the corresponding virtual contribution one obtains the order $\alpha^2$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-11-01 A. H. Hoang , M. Jeżabek , J. H. Kühn , T. Teubner

We compute the two-loop electroweak corrections due to the top quark to the gluon fusion production cross section of an intermediate-mass Higgs boson. This result, together with the previously known contribution due to the light fermions,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-01-13 Giuseppe Degrassi , Fabio Maltoni

We present a calculation of the NLO QCD corrections to the loop-induced production of a photon pair through gluon fusion, including massive top quarks at two loops, where the two-loop integrals are calculated numerically. Matching the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-10-14 Long Chen , Gudrun Heinrich , Stephan Jahn , Stephen P. Jones , Matthias Kerner , Johannes Schlenk , Hiroshi Yokoya

We report on progress for the analytical calculation of the two-loop corrections to top quark pair production at hadron colliders. For the light fermionic corrections in the gluon channel, we discuss the analytical solution for the master…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-10-05 Andreas von Manteuffel , Cedric Studerus

We present a complete set of one-loop matrix elements relevant for the hadroproduction of heavy quarks in next-to-leading order employing dimensional regularization to isolate ultraviolet and soft divergences. All results of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 J. G. Korner , Z. Merebashvili

We present a calculation of the NLO QCD corrections to the loop-induced production of a photon pair through gluon fusion, including massive top quarks at two loops. The two-loop virtual amplitudes are computed via projecting onto a set of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-12-13 Long Chen , Gudrun Heinrich , Stephan Jahn , Stephen P. Jones , Matthias Kerner , Johannes Schlenk , Hiroshi Yokoya

We calculate exclusive production of a longitudinally polarized heavy vector meson at next-to-leading order in the dipole picture. The large quark mass allows us to separately include both the first QCD correction proportional to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-01 Heikki Mäntysaari , Jani Penttala

We calculate the next-to-next-to-leading order ${\cal O}(\alpha_s^4)$ one-loop squared corrections to the production of heavy-quark pairs in the gluon-gluon fusion process. Together with the previously derived results on the $q \bar{q}$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-12-18 B. Kniehl , J. G. Körner , Z. Merebashvili , M. Rogal

We present the complete analytical result for the two-loop logarithmically enhanced contributions to the high energy asymptotic behavior of the vector form factor and the four-fermion cross section in a spontaneously broken SU(2) gauge…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-18 Bernd Jantzen , Johann H. Kühn , Alexander A. Penin , Vladimir A. Smirnov

Recently the two-loop next-to-leading logarithmic (NLL) virtual corrections to arbitrary processes with massless external fermions have been calculated. Within the spontaneously broken electroweak theory the one- and two-loop mass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-02-16 Bernd Jantzen

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 briefly review the status of the calculation of next-to-next-to-leading order corrections to large angle Bhabha scattering in pure QED. In particular, we focus on the analytic calculation of the two-loop virtual corrections involving a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 R. Bonciani , A. Ferroglia

We investigate the threshold-enhanced QCD corrections to the cross sections for direct top quark productions induced by model-independent flavor changing neutral current couplings at hadron colliders. We use the soft-collinear effective…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Li Lin Yang , Chong Sheng Li , Yang Gao , Jian Jun Liu

We compute the next-to-leading order virtual QCD corrections to Higgs pair production via gluon fusion. We present analytic results for the two-loop contributions to the spin-0 and spin-2 form factors in the amplitude. The reducible…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-24 Giuseppe Degrassi , Pier Paolo Giardino , Ramona Gröber

We have calculated the first and second order corrections to several deep inelastic sum rules which are due to heavy flavour contributions. A comparison is made with the existing perturbation series which has been computed up to third order…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-01-25 J. Bluemlein , W. L. van Neerven

Perturbative QCD one-loop corrections to the cross sections of the $b\bar b$ $(c\bar c)$ quark pair production in polarized photon-photon collisions, as well as cross sections of the radiative processes photon-photon ->$b\bar b g$,$c\bar c…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 George Jikia , Avto Tkabladze

We present a complete set of analytic helicity amplitudes for top quark pair production via gluon fusion at two-loops in QCD. For the first time, we include corrections due to massive fermion loops which give rise to integrals over elliptic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-07-14 Simon Badger , Ekta Chaubey , Heribertus Bayu Hartanto , Robin Marzucca