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We calculate the $W^\pm\gamma j + X$-production cross sections at next-to-leading order QCD for Tevatron and LHC collisions. We include leptonic decays of the $W$ to light leptons, with all off-shell effects taken into account. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-17 F. Campanario , C. Englert , M. Spannowsky , D. Zeppenfeld

We calculate the full one-loop electroweak radiative corrections, of ${\cal O}(\alpha^2\alpha_s)$, to the cross section of single $Z$-boson inclusive hadroproduction at finite transverse momentum ($p_T$). This includes the ${\cal…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-12-09 W. Hollik , B. A. Kniehl , E. S. Shcherbakova , O. L. Veretin

We present the analytic total cross section of top quark pair production in electron-positron annihilation at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD). By utilizing the optical theorem, the NNLO corrections are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-09-10 Long-Bin Chen , Jian Wang , Yefan Wang

ZFITTER is a Fortran program for the calculation of fermion pair production and radiative corrections at high energy e+e- colliders; it is also suitable for other applications where electroweak radiative corrections appear. ZFITTER is based…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 A. B. Arbuzov , M. Awramik , M. Czakon , A. Freitas , M. W. Gruenewald , K. Moenig , S. Riemann , T. Riemann

Vector-boson fusion processes constitute an important class of reactions at hadron colliders, both for signals and backgrounds of new physics in the electroweak interactions. We consider what is commonly referred to as W+W- production via…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Barbara Jager , Carlo Oleari , Dieter Zeppenfeld

We demonstrate that in the back-to-back kinematics the production of four jets in the collision of two partons is suppressed in the leading log approximation of pQCD, compared to the hard processes involving the collision of four partons.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-04-22 B. Blok , Yu. Dokshitzer , L. Frankfurt , M. Strikman

Top quark production in electron-positron annihilation is one of the benchmark reactions at a future linear collider. Both electroweak and QCD corrections are large, amounting to 10% or even more in specific kinematic regions. In this note…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Kuehn , T. Hahn , R. Harlander

We briefly describe the RacoonWW approach to calculate radiative corrections to e+ e- -> W W -> 4 fermions and present numerical results for the total W-pair production cross section at LEP2.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Denner , S. Dittmaier , M. Roth , D. Wackeroth

We study linear power corrections ${\cal O}(\Lambda_{\rm QCD}/Q)$ to certain collider observables. We present arguments that prove that such corrections cannot appear in observables that are inclusive with respect to QCD radiation, such as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-14 Fabrizio Caola , Silvia Ferrario Ravasio , Giovanni Limatola , Kirill Melnikov , Paolo Nason

The O(\alpha) electroweak radiative corrections to the process pp, ppbar\to W \to\ell^\pm\nu (\ell=e,\mu) are calculated. The O(\alpha) corrections can be decomposed into separately gauge invariant contributions to the W boson production…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 U. Baur , S. Keller , D. Wackeroth

We consider the hadroproduction of a massive charged lepton plus the corresponding neutrino through the Drell-Yan mechanism. We present a new computation of the mixed QCD-EW corrections to this process. The cancellation of soft and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-16 Luca Buonocore , Massimiliano Grazzini , Stefan Kallweit , Chiara Savoini , Francesco Tramontano

Evidence is presented for the electroweak (EW) production of two jets (jj) in association with two Z bosons and constraints on anomalous quartic gauge couplings are set. The analysis is based on a data sample of proton-proton collisions at…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2020-12-18 CMS Collaboration

Radiative effects in the electroproduction of photons in polarized $ep$-scattering are calculated with the next-to-leading (NLO) accuracy. The contributions of loops and two photon emission were presented in analytical form. The covariant…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-08-06 Igor Akushevich , Alexander Ilyichev , Nikolai M. Shumeiko

In this paper we present the first study of the impact of the $\mathcal{O}(\alpha)$ EW correction to the $pp \to ZZ \gamma+X$ process at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). The subsequent $Z$-boson leptonic decays are considered at the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-02 Wang Yong , Zhang Ren-You , Ma Wen-Gan , Li Xiao-Zhou , Wang Shao-Ming , Bi Huan-Yu

We compute mixed QCD-electroweak corrections to the fully-differential production of an on-shell $W$ boson. Decays of $W$ bosons to lepton pairs are included in the leading order approximation. The required two-loop virtual corrections are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-03 Arnd Behring , Federico Buccioni , Fabrizio Caola , Maximillian Delto , Matthieu Jaquier , Kirill Melnikov , Raoul Röntsch

We report on the first fully differential calculation for $W^\pm Z$ production in hadron collisions up to next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in QCD perturbation theory. Leptonic decays of the $W$ and $Z$ bosons are consistently taken into…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-09-13 Massimiliano Grazzini , Stefan Kallweit , Dirk Rathlev , Marius Wiesemann

We present a comprehensive analytic calculation of the next-to-next-to-leading order $\text{QCD} \otimes \text{EW}$ corrections to $Z$-boson pair production at electron-positron colliders. The two-loop master integrals essential to this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-08-05 Zhe Li , Ren-You Zhang , Shu-Xiang Li , Xiao-Feng Wang , Pan-Feng Li , Yi Jiang , Liang Han , Qing-hai Wang

Triple-W-boson production in proton-proton collisions allows for a direct access to the triple and quartic gauge couplings and provides a window to the mechanism of electroweak symmetry breaking. It is an important process to test the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-09-20 Stefan Dittmaier , Alexander Huss , Gernot Knippen

An alternative calculation of the lowest order electroweak radiative corrections to the single W-boson production in hadron-hadron collision in the framework of the quark parton model without any absorption of the collinear quark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 I. Akushevich , A. Ilyichev , N. Shumeiko , V. Zykunov

At hadron colliders, the differential cross section for $W$ production can be factorized and it is sensitive transverse momentum dependent distributions (TMD) for low boson transverse momentum. While, often, the corresponding…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-06-02 Daniel Gutierrez-Reyes , Sergio Leal-Gomez , Ignazio Scimemi