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The ${\Upsilon}(nS)$ ${\to}$ $B_{c}^{\ast}D$ weak decays ($n$ $=$ $1$, $2$, $3$) are investigated with perturbative QCD approach. It is found that the CKM-favored ${\Upsilon}(nS)$ ${\to}$ $B_{c}^{\ast}D_{s}$ decays have branching ratio of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-09-19 Yueling Yang , Junfeng Sun , Jinshu Huang , Haiyan Li , Gongru Lu , Qin Chang

We compute the next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD corrections to the gluon-fusion subprocess of diphoton-plus-jet production at the LHC. We compute fully differential distributions by combining two-loop virtual corrections with one-loop real…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-01 Simon Badger , Thomas Gehrmann , Matteo Marcoli , Ryan Moodie

We study QCD corrections for the associated production of a single top quark and a photon ($tq\gamma$ production) at hadron colliders. We calculate the NLO cross section at LHC and future collider energies for a variety of kinematical cuts,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-08 Nikolaos Kidonakis , Nodoka Yamanaka

The high-energy behaviour of the total cross section for highly virtual photons, as predicted by the BFKL equation at next-to-leading order (NLO) in QCD, is discussed. The NLO BFKL predictions, improved by the BLM optimal scale setting, are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-11 S. J. Brodsky , V. S. Fadin , V. T. Kim , L. N. Lipatov , G. B. Pivovarov

By employing the perturbative QCD (PQCD) factorization approach, we calculated the branching ratios, CP-violating asymmetries, the longitudinal and transverse polarization fractions and other physical observables of the thirteen charmless…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-09-26 Da-Cheng Yan , Xin Liu , Zhen-Jun Xiao

We present next-to-next-to-leading-order (NNLO) QCD corrections to the production of three isolated photons in hadronic collisions at the fully differential level. We employ qT subtraction within MATRIX and an efficient implementation of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-01-05 Stefan Kallweit , Vasily Sotnikov , Marius Wiesemann

One of the most challenging open problems in heavy quarkonium physics is the double charm production in $e^+e^-$ annihilation at B factories. The measured cross section of $e^+ e^- \to J/\psi + \eta_c$ is much larger than leading order (LO)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Y. J. Zhang , Y. J. Gao , K. T. Chao

We discuss the leading-logarithmic power corrections in the $N$-jettiness subtraction scheme for higher-order perturbative QCD calculations. We compute the next-to-leading order power corrections for an arbitrary $N$-jet process, and we…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-04-05 Radja Boughezal , Xiaohui Liu , Frank Petriello

In this paper, we study the next-to-next-to-leading-order (NNLO) QCD corrections for the process $e^+e^- \to J/\psi+J/\psi$ at the $B$ factories. By including the NNLO corrections, the cross section turns negative due to the poor…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-13 Xu-Dong Huang , Bin Gong , Rui-Chang Niu , Huai-Min Yu , Jian-Xiong Wang

We present a calculation of the full next-to-leading order QCD corrections to the scattering process pp \to t tbar Z. This channel will be used to measure the t tbar Z electroweak couplings at the Large Hadron Collider. These couplings…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Achilleas Lazopoulos , Thomas McElmurry , Kirill Melnikov , Frank Petriello

We compute the next-to-leading order QCD corrections to the ``direct'' part of the spin-dependent cross section for hadron-pair photoproduction. The calculation is performed using largely analytical methods. We present a brief…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Christof Hendlmeier , Andreas Schafer , Marco Stratmann

We compute theoretical predictions for the production of a W-boson in association with a bottom-quark pair at hadron colliders at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in QCD, including the leptonic decay of the W-boson, while treating the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-17 Heribertus Bayu Hartanto , Rene Poncelet , Andrei Popescu , Simone Zoia

The QCD radiative corrections to the leptonic decay rate of the $B_c$ meson are calculated using the formalism of nonrelativistic QCD (NRQCD) to separate short-distance and long-distance effects. The $B_c$ decay constant is factored into a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 Eric Braaten , Sean Fleming

In this paper, we will make systematic calculations for the branching ratios and the CP-violating asymmetries of the twenty one $\bar{B}^0_s \to PV $ decays by employing the perturbative QCD (PQCD) factorization approach. Besides the full…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-09 Da-Cheng Yan , Ping Yang , Xin Liu , Zhen-Jun Xiao

In this talk we present the calculation of next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) QCD corrections to dijet production and related observables at hadron colliders in the purely gluonic channel. Results for this channel are obtained keeping all…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-12-20 James Currie , Aude Gehrmann-De Ridder , Thomas Gehrmann , E. W. N. Glover , Joao Pires

We have computed the complete next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) contributions to the splitting functions governing the evolution of unpolarized parton densities in perturbative QCD. Our results agree with all partial results available in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Moch , J. A. M. Vermaseren , A. Vogt

We compute the complete O(alpha^2) QED corrections to the electron energy spectrum in unpolarized muon decay, including the full dependence on the electron mass. Our calculation reduces the theoretical uncertainty on the electron energy…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Charalampos Anastasiou , Kirill Melnikov , Frank Petriello

We present the analytic calculation of the two-loop QCD corrections to the decay width of a Higgs boson into a photon and a $Z$ boson. The calculation is carried out using integration-by-parts identities for the reduction to master…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-09-30 R. Bonciani , V. Del Duca , H. Frellesvig , J. M. Henn , F. Moriello , V. A. Smirnov

We examine the effect of higher-order QCD corrections on the four top-quark production cross section in the $3$ lepton decay channel. Top-quark and $W$ gauge-boson decays are included at next-to-leading order in perturbative QCD. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-03-10 Nikolaos Dimitrakopoulos , Malgorzata Worek

The radiative leptonic $B\to \gamma\ell\nu_{\ell}$ decay serves as an ideal platform to determine the $B$-meson inverse moment which is a fundamental nonperturbative parameter for the $B$ meson. In this paper, we explore precise QCD…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-25 Bo-Yan Cui , Yue-Long Shen , Chao Wang , Yan-Bing Wei