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New physics interactions beyond the Standard Model can make themselves known as small corrections to Standard Model reactions. There is a diverse array of proposals for new physics, and so any parametrization of those effects must be as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-03-12 Michael E. Peskin

The quartic gauge boson couplings that identify the strengths of the gauge boson self-interactions are exactly determined by the non-Abelian gauge nature of the Standard Model. The examination of these couplings at $ep$ collisions with high…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-02 E. Gurkanli , V. Ari , A. A. Billur , M. Köksal

We discuss new diffractive mechanism of central exclusive production of $W^+W^-$ pairs in proton-proton collisions at the LHC. We include diagrams with intermediate virtual Higgs boson as well as quark box diagrams. Several observables…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-04 Piotr Lebiedowicz , Roman Pasechnik , Antoni Szczurek

The complete matrix element for $e^+e^-\rightarrow b\bar b W^+W^-$ is computed at tree-level within the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model. Rates of interest to phenomenological analyses at the Next Linear Collider are given. In…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Stefano Moretti

The Monte Carlo program {\tt WWGENPV}, designed for computing distributions and generating events for the four-fermion process $e^+ e^- \to W^+ W^- \to 4f$, is described. It is based on the calculation of the exact tree-level matrix element…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 G. Montagna , O. Nicrosini , F. Piccinini

We study the sensitivity to the shape of the Higgs potential of single, double, and triple Higgs production at future $e^+e^-$ colliders. Physics beyond the Standard Model is parameterised through the inclusion of higher-dimensional…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-08-15 Fabio Maltoni , Davide Pagani , Xiaoran Zhao

A "Higgs factory", an electron-positron collider with center-of-mass energy of about 250 GeV, will measure the cross section of the Higgsstrahlung process, $e^+e^-\rightarrow hZ$, with sub-percent precision. This measurement is sensitive to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-08-05 Nathaniel Craig , Marco Farina , Matthew McCullough , Maxim Perelstein

The production of massive quarks and leptons in $e^+e^-$ collisions is studied using exact helicity amplitudes. Total cross sections as a function of $y_{\rm cut}$, in both the JADE and the $k_T$ algorithms, are presented and compared with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-22 A. Ballestrero , E. Maina , S. Moretti

We present projections for the sensitivity of future high-energy colliders to new physics through precision measurements of the Standard Model (SM) interactions, focusing on near-term electron-positron facilities: FCC-ee, LEP3, and the…

We use the POWHEG formalism in the Herwig++ event generator to match QCD real-emission matrix elements with the parton shower for a range of decays relevant to Beyond the Standard Model physics searches. Applying this correction affects the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-02-04 Peter Richardson , Alexandra Wilcock

We calculate fermion-loop corrections to high energy $W^+W^-$ scattering in the context of a Strongly Interacting Electroweak Symmetry Breaking Sector (EWSBS) using Higgs Effective Field Theory(HEFT). We test the assumption that these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-12-23 Antonio Dobado , Carlos Quezada-Calonge , Juan José Sanz-Cillero

The littlest Higgs model is the most economical one among various little Higgs models. In the context of the littlest Higgs(LH) model, we study the process $e^{-}\gamma\to \nu_{e}W^{-}H$ and calculate the contributions of the LH model to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-03-19 Yao-Bei Liu , Lin-Lin Du , Xue-Lei Wang

This note gives an overview of the tools for predicting expectations in the Standard Model effective field theory (SMEFT) at the tree level and one loop available through event generators. Methods of event reweighting, the separate…

This is the first of two companion papers where we prove that the recently discovered non perturbative mechanism capable of giving mass to elementary fermions, in the presence of weak interactions can also generate a mass for the $W$, and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-11-07 Giancarlo Rossi

We investigate the impact of electroweak corrections and effective field theory operators on $W^+W^-$ production at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Utilizing the Standard Model effective-field theory (SMEFT) framework, we extend the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-03 Shankha Banerjee , Daniel Reichelt , Michael Spannowsky

We introduce a new, fully massive, Monte Carlo program to compute all four-fermion processes in electron-positron collisions, including Higgs production. We outline our strategy for the matrix element evaluation, the phase space generation…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 F. A. Berends , C. G. Papadopoulos , R. Pittau

For an electron-photon collider the complete tree-level cross sections of the reaction $\gamma e \rightarrow \nu b \bar{b} W$ are computed at center-of-mass energies between 0.5 and 2.0 TeV, for top masses of 160 to 200 GeV and Higgs masses…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-07-19 E. Boos , A. Pukhov , M. Sachwitz , H. J. Schreiber

The six-fermion production processes $e^+e^-\to q\bar q l^+ l^-\nu\bar\nu$, with all the lepton flavours and $q=u,d,c,s$, relevant to the study of the intermediate-mass Higgs boson at future $e^+e^-$ linear colliders, are analysed. A Monte…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-13 F. Gangemi , G. Montagna , M. Moretti , O. Nicrosini , F. Piccinini

We accomplish our efforts to obtain predictions for all four-fermion final states of e+ e- annihilation and the corresponding bremsstrahlung reactions which are possible in the framework of the Standard Model. For this purpose we have…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-13 F. Jegerlehner , K. Kolodziej

Even if some experimental evidence suggests the existence of physics beyond the SM, no clues of new resonances can be found in the data. In the case their masses are much larger than the energies of current experiments, the SMEFT formalism…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-18 Matteo Maltoni