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We compute QCD radiative corrections to the continuum production of a pair of Z-bosons in the annihilation of two gluons. We only consider the contribution of the top quark loops and we treat them assuming that $m_t$ is much larger than any…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-24 Kirill Melnikov , Matthew Dowling

We present a fully consistent implementation of electroweak and strong radiative corrections to single W hadroproduction in the POWHEG BOX framework, treating soft and collinear photon emissions on the same ground as coloured parton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-14 L. Barze' , G. Montagna , P. Nason , O. Nicrosini , F. Piccinini

We studied the leading supersymmetric contribution to top-antitop threshold production using the NRQCD framework. The one-loop matching to the potential and the Wilson coefficient of the leading production current were considered. We point…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-07 Shufang Su , Mark B. Wise

In this article, we consider the transverse momentum ($q_T$) distribution of $W$ and $Z$ bosons produced in hadronic collisions. We combine the $q_T$ resummation for QED and QCD radiation including the QED soft emissions from the $W$ boson…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-08-02 Andrea Autieri , Leandro Cieri , Giancarlo Ferrera , German F. R. Sborlini

We study the impact of electroweak radiative corrections on direct production of photons with high transverse momenta at hadron colliders. Analytic results for the weak one-loop corrections to the parton scattering reaction $\bar q q \to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Johann H. Kuhn , A. Kulesza , S. Pozzorini , M. Schulze

In this paper we present the results from a calculation of the full electroweak one-loop corrections for $\gamma Z$ vector-boson pair production at hadron colliders. The cases of proton--antiproton as well as proton--proton collisions, at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-04-05 W. Hollik , C. Meier

We calculate the O(alpha_s) and O(alpha_W m_t^2/M_W^2) corrections to the production of a single top quark via the weak process q qbar -> t bbar at the Fermilab Tevatron and the CERN Large Hadron Collider. An accurate calculation of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-28 Martin C. Smith , Scott S. Willenbrock

We have calculated the $O(\alpha_{ew} M_t^2/M_W^2)$ supersymmetric electroweak corrections to single top quark production via $q\bar q' \to t\bar b$ at the Fermilab Tevatron in the minimal supersymmetric model. The supersymmetric…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-30 Chong Sheng Li , Robert J. Oakes , Jin Min Yang

Measurements of electroweak precision observables at future electron-positron colliders, such as the CEPC, FCC-ee, and ILC, will be sensitive to physics at multi-TeV scales. To achieve this sensitivity, precise predictions for the Standard…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-04-07 Lisong Chen , Ayres Freitas

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

Measurements of the inclusive and differential cross section for the production of top quark pairs in proton-(anti)proton collision at center-of-mass energies of 1.96, 7.0 and 8.0 TeV are presented and compared with the latest theory…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2015-06-15 Frank-Peter Schilling

We present a survey of the most abundant processes at the LHC for sensitivity to electroweak corrections at \sqrt{s} = 8, 14, 33, and 100 TeV proton-proton collision energies. The processes studied are pp -> dijet, inclusive W and Z,…

We present the calculation of the NLO QCD corrections to the electroweak production of top-antitop pairs at the CERN LHC in the presence of a new neutral gauge boson. The corrections are implemented in the parton shower Monte Carlo program…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-03-23 R. Bonciani , T. Jezo , M. Klasen , F. Lyonnet , I. Schienbein

In this paper, we reanalyze the top-quark pair production at the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in QCD at future $e^+e^-$ colliders by using the Principle of Maximum Conformality (PMC) method. The PMC renormalization scales in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-02-06 Jin Ma , Sheng-Quan Wang , Ting Sun , Jian-Ming Shen , Xing-Gang Wu

We compute the O(alpha_s) QCD corrections to the inclusive process e^+e^- --> t \bar t h. Although the total rate is small, it has a distinctive experimental signature and can potentially be used to measure the top quark-Higgs boson Yukawa…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-10-31 Sally Dawson , Laura Reina

Direct and indirect information on the top quark mass and its decay modes is reviewed. The theory of top production in hadron- and electron-positron-colliders is presented.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-09-25 J. H. Kuehn

We present the NLO QCD corrections to the production of a W+W- pair and two b-jets, including the leptonic decays of the W bosons. Contributions from singly resonant and non-resonant top quarks are fully taken into account. We also discuss…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-12-25 Johannes Schlenk , Gudrun Heinrich , Jan Winter

The sophistication of current predictions for $Z+$jet production at hadron colliders necessitates a re-evaluation of any approximations inherent in the theoretical calculations. In this paper we address one such issue, the inclusion of mass…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-02-01 John M. Campbell , R. Keith Ellis

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 evaluate the supersymmetric QCD corrections to single top quark production via $q \bar q'\to t \bar b$ at the Fermilab Tevatron in the minimal supersymmetric model. We find that within the allowed range of squark and gluino masses the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-08-25 Chong Sheng Li , Robert J. Oakes , Jin Min Yang , Hong-Yi Zhou