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Recent discrepancies between theoretical predictions and experimental data in multi-lepton plus $b$-jets analyses for the $t\bar{t}W^\pm$ process, as reported by the ATLAS collaboration, have indicated that more accurate theoretical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-04 Giuseppe Bevilacqua , Huan-Yu Bi , Heribertus Bayu Hartanto , Manfred Kraus , Jasmina Nasufi , Malgorzata Worek

We review the precision measurement of the mass and couplings of the W Boson at LEP. The total and differential W+W- cross section is used to extract the WWZ and WWgamma couplings. We discuss the techniques used by the four LEP experiments…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Raimund Ströhmer

We propose a method to determine the running of $\alpha_{QED}$ from the measurement of small-angle Bhabha scattering. The method is suited to high statistics experiments at $e^{+} e^{-}$ colliders, which are equipped with luminometers in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 Luca Trentadue

The cross section for production at the 7 TeV LHC has been measured. For the first time it therefore becomes possible to measure Z couplings to top quarks. Interpreting the notorious LEP1 anomaly on Z couplings to b quarks in terms of an…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-04-15 François Richard

Consideration is being given to upgrading the SuperKEKB electron-positron collider with the introduction of electron-beam polarization. This would enable a unique precision electroweak physics program that opens new ways to search for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-11 Caleb Miller , J. Michael Roney

The $\alpha$ inelastic scattering on $^{16}$O is investigated with the coupled-channel calculation using the $\alpha$-nucleus coupled-channel potentials, which are microscopically derived by folding the the Melbourne $g$-matrix $NN$…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-06-19 Yoshiko Kanada-En'yo , Kazuyuki Ogata

We study the sources of systematic errors in the measurement of the Z to ll cross-sections at the LHC. We consider the systematic errors in both the total cross-section and acceptance for anticipated experimental cuts. We include the best…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-23 Nadia E. Adam , Valerie Halyo , Scott A. Yost

We extend to the special case of Bhabha scattering the "Z-peak subtracted" representation previously applied to e+e- to f f(bar) (f different from e). This allows us to analyze the process at any energy while imposing in an automatic way…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 M. Beccaria , F. M. Renard , S. Spagnolo , C. Verzegnassi

We evaluate the two-loop corrections to Bhabha scattering from fermion loops in the context of pure Quantum Electrodynamics. The differential cross section is expressed by a small number of Master Integrals with exact dependence on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Actis , M. Czakon , J. Gluza , T. Riemann

The leptonic QED radiative corrections are calculated in the next-to-leading log approximation ${\cal O}[\alpha^2 \ln(Q^2/m_e^2)]$ for unpolarized deeply inelastic $ep$--scattering in the case of mixed variables. The corrections are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-05 J. Blümlein , H. Kawamura

The data on p$\mathrm{\bar p}$ elastic scattering at 1.8 and 1.96 TeV are analysed in terms of real and imaginary amplitudes, in a treatment with high accuracy, covering the whole t-range and satisfying the expectation of dispersion…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-11 A. K. Kohara , E. Ferreira , T. Kodama

The LDA-1/2 method has proven to be a viable approach for calculating band gaps of semiconductors. To address its accuracy for finite systems, we apply LDA-1/2 to atoms and the molecules of the $GW100$ test set. The obtained energies of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-08-31 Ronaldo Rodrigues Pela , Andris Gulans , Claudia Draxl

The two-loop radiative photonic corrections to the Bhabha scattering are computed in the leading order of the small electron mass expansion up to nonlogarithmic term. After including the soft photon bremsstrahlung we obtain the infrared…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 A. A. Penin

Theoretical predictions for Bhabha scattering at the two-loop level require the inclusion of hadronic vacuum polarization in the photon propagator. We present predictions for the contributions from reducible amplitudes which are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Johann H. Kühn , Sandro Uccirati

We review the precision measurement of the mass of the W-boson at LEP. We discuss the techniques used by the four LEP experiments to determine the mass of the W-boson as well as the major sources of systematic uncertainty. The measurement…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 Raimund Ströhmer

We discuss theoretical uncertainties of the distribution in the cosine of the W polar angle projected into a measurement of the anomalous triple gauge-boson coupling \lambda=\lambda_{\gamma}=\lambda_Z at LEP2 energies for the tandem of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 R. Bruneliere , A. Denner , S. Dittmaier , S. Jadach , S. Jezequel , W. Placzek , M. Roth , M. Skrzypek , D. Wackeroth , B. F. L. Ward , Z. Was

The efficient use of a multipole expansion of the far field for rapid numerical modeling and optimization of the optical response from ordered and disordered arrays of various structural elements is complicated by the ambiguity in choosing…

Optics · Physics 2023-11-23 Alexander V. Kildishev , Karim Achouri , Daria Smirnova

Upper limits on doubly charged bilepton couplings and masses are extracted from LEP data for Bhabha scattering at energy range $\sqrt{s}=183-202$ GeV using standard model program ZFITTER which calculates radiative corrections. We find that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Atag , K. O. Ozansoy

Measurements of the cross section and of the interactions happening at the tWb vertext are performed in the single top t-channel at center-of-mass energies of 7 and 8 TeV. Results of both ATLAS and CMS collaborations are presented. No…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-08-14 Benedikt Maier

We derive the coefficient of the O(alpha^2 log(s/m_e^2)) fixed order contribution to elastic large-angle Bhabha scattering. We adapt the classification of infrared divergences, that was recently developed within dimensional regularization,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 E. W. N. Glover , J. B. Tausk , J. J. van der Bij