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The next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD corrections are calculated for the pair-annihilation of spin-1 dark matter (DM) by dimensionally regularizing both ultraviolet and infrared singularities in non-relativistic limit (v<<1). The complete…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-02-06 Jae Ho Heo

We consider the thrust ($T$) distribution in electron-positron ($e^+e^-$) annihilation into hadrons and we perform the all-order resummation of the large logarithms of $1-T$ up to next-to-next-to-next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-02-10 Ugo Giuseppe Aglietti , Giancarlo Ferrera , Wan-Li Ju , Jiahao Miao

Within the framework of nonrelativistic QCD (NRQCD) factorization, we investigate the relativistic corrections to the production of double $B_c$ mesons in $e^+e^-$ annihilation. The study covers center-of-mass energies from the production…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-12-24 Xiao-Peng Wang , Yi-Jie Li , Guang-Zhi Xu , Kui-Yong Liu

In this article, we report on the computation of the NLO QCD corrections to ${\rm p}{\rm p} \to \mu^-\bar\nu_{\mu}{\rm e}^+\nu_{\rm e}\bar{\rm b}{\rm b}\bar{\rm b}{\rm b}$ at the LHC, which is an irreducible background to ${\rm p}{\rm…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-09-22 Ansgar Denner , Jean-Nicolas Lang , Mathieu Pellen

QED radiative corrections to the cross-section of muon-antimuon annihilation into Higgs boson and photon are calculated within the 1-loop approximation. We write down the expression for cross-section in the form of Drell-Yan process, taking…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 A. B. Arbuzov , E. A. Kuraev , F. F. Tikhonin , B. G. Shaikhatdenov

The precision of fixed-order calculations on the dihadron production in electron-positron annihilation is paramount for probing QCD factorization and constraining non-perturbative inputs. This paper investigates the QCD corrections to the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-09-12 Wan-Li Ju , Zhe-Yan Shu , Tong-Zhi Yang , Zhen-Hua Zhang , Hua Xing Zhu

In this work we calculate for the first time the next-to-next-to leading order (NNLO) QCD corrections to identified hadron production at hadron colliders. The inclusion of the NNLO correction has an important impact on all observables…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-23 Michał Czakon , Terry Generet , Alexander Mitov , Rene Poncelet

We calculate the next-to-leading-order (NLO) QCD corrections to $e^+e^-\to J/\psi g g$ via color singlet $J/\psi(^3{-0.8mm}S_1)$ at the B factories. The result shows that the cross section is enhanced to $0.373\pb$ by a K factor (NLO/LO) of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-06-16 Bin Gong , Jian-Xiong Wang

We present the calculation of the order $\alpha_s^2$ corrections to the coefficient functions contributing to the longitudinal ($F_L(x,Q^2)$) and transverse fragmentation functions ($F_T(x,Q^2)$) measured in electron-positron annihilation.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-25 P. J. Rijken , W. L. van Neerven

The QED Coulomb correction is one of the most important corrections to the e+ e- --> W+ W- total cross section near threshold. We calculate these corrections through second order, and discuss the implications for extracting M_W from a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 V. S. Fadin , V. A. Khoze , A. D. Martin , W. J. Stirling

We compute the NNLO QCD corrections to three-photon production at the LHC. This is the first NNLO QCD calculation for a $2\to 3$ process. Our calculation is exact, except for the scale-independent part of the two-loop finite remainder which…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-02-27 Herschel A. Chawdhry , Michał Czakon , Alexander Mitov , Rene Poncelet

We calculate the NNLO QCD corrections to diphoton production with an additional jet at the LHC. Our calculation represents the first NNLO-accurate prediction for the transverse momentum distribution of the diphoton system. The improvement…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-12-08 Herschel A. Chawdhry , Michal Czakon , Alexander Mitov , Rene Poncelet

QCD corrections to the electron positron annihilation cross-section into hadrons and to the hadronic $Z$ boson decay rate are reviewed. Formal developments are introduced in a form particularly suited for practical applications. These…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 K. G. Chetyrkin , J. H. Kühn , A. Kwiatkowski

This short summary reviews the recent progress in the computation of higher-order corrections to W+b W-antib production. In addition, new phenomenological studies reveal potential problems that may affect precision measurements at the LHC.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-12-16 Jan Winter

We present the full order alpha electroweak radiative corrections to e+e- -> e+e-H. The computation is performed with the help of GRACE-loop. The extraction of the full QED corrections is performed, these are quite large at threshold. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 F. Boudjema , J. Fujimoto , T. Ishikawa , T. Kaneko , K. Kato , Y. Kurihara , Y. Shimizu , Y. Yasui

We analytically calculate the cross sections of double charmonium production in $e^+ e^- \to J/\psi(\psi(2S))\chi_{cJ}$ (J=0,1,2) at next-to-leading order (NLO) in $\alpha_s$ in nonrelativistic QCD, and confirm factorization of these…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-09-08 Kai Wang , Yan-Qing Ma , Kuang-Ta Chao

We present a measurement of forward-backward asymmetry in top quark-antiquark production in proton-antiproton collisions in the final state containing a lepton and at least four jets. Using a dataset corresponding to an integrated…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2012-08-27 D0 Collaboration

Based on the NRQCD factorization formalism, we calculate the next-to-next-to-leading order QCD corrections to the heavy quarkonium $\eta_c (\eta_b)$ production associated with a photon at electron-positron colliders. By matching the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-02-14 Long-Bin Chen , Yi Liang , Cong-Feng Qiao

We correct an important misprint in the journal version of our earlier work on "New Jet Cluster Algorithms: Next-to-leading Order QCD...", published in Nucl. Phys. B 370 (1992) 310, which may have lead to an incorrect parametrisation of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Bethke , Z. Kunszt , D. E. Soper , W. J. Stirling

We consider the back-to-back region in the energy--energy correlation in e^+e^- collisions. We present the explicit expression of the O(as^2) logarithmically enhanced contributions up to next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-05 D. de Florian , M. Grazzini