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View article: Soft contributions to heavy quark production in arbitrary kinematics
Soft contributions to heavy quark production in arbitrary kinematics Open
We present the computation of the soft-parton contribution at low transverse momentum for the production of a heavy quark pair in association with a colour singlet at the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in the QCD coupling. This paper…
View article: State-of-the-art cross sections for $t\bar t H$: NNLO predictions matched with NNLL resummation and EW corrections
State-of-the-art cross sections for $t\bar t H$: NNLO predictions matched with NNLL resummation and EW corrections Open
We present new, state-of-the-art predictions for the associated production of the SM Higgs boson with top quarks, computed in accordance with the recommendations of the LHC Higgs Working Group. The NNLO QCD predictions, derived through sui…
View article: MATRIX HAWAII: PineAPPL interpolation grids with MATRIX
MATRIX HAWAII: PineAPPL interpolation grids with MATRIX Open
We present an interface between PineAPPL and Matrix, which allows fully differential cross sections to be calculated in the form of interpolation grids, accurate at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in QCD and next-to-leading order in e…
View article: Precise predictions for $$ t\overline{t}H $$ production at the LHC: inclusive cross section and differential distributions
Precise predictions for $$ t\overline{t}H $$ production at the LHC: inclusive cross section and differential distributions Open
A bstract We present the first fully differential next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) QCD calculation for the production of a top-antitop quark pair in association with a Higgs boson $$ \left(t\overline{t}H\right) $$ at hadron col…
View article: Mixed QCD-EW corrections to the neutral-current Drell-Yan process
Mixed QCD-EW corrections to the neutral-current Drell-Yan process Open
We report on the complete computation of the mixed QCD-electroweak corrections to the neutral-current Drell-Yan process. Our calculation holds in the entire range of dilepton invariant masses. We present phenomenological results for severa…
View article: Precise predictions for $t \bar t H$ production at the LHC: inclusive cross section and differential distributions
Precise predictions for $t \bar t H$ production at the LHC: inclusive cross section and differential distributions Open
We present the first fully differential next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) QCD calculation for the production of a top-antitop quark pair in association with a Higgs boson ($t \bar t H$) at hadron colliders. The computation is exact, exc…
View article: Two-loop mixed QCD-EW corrections to charged current Drell-Yan
Two-loop mixed QCD-EW corrections to charged current Drell-Yan Open
We present the two-loop mixed strong-electroweak virtual corrections to the charged current Drell-Yan process. The final-state collinear singularities are regularised by the lepton mass. The evaluation of all the relevant Feynman integrals…
View article: Precise Predictions for the Associated Production of a <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mi>W</mml:mi></mml:math> Boson with a Top-Antitop Quark Pair at the LHC
Precise Predictions for the Associated Production of a Boson with a Top-Antitop Quark Pair at the LHC Open
The production of a top-antitop quark pair in association with a W boson (tt¯W) is one of the heaviest signatures currently probed at the Large Hadron Collider. Since the first observation reported in 2015, the corresponding rates have bee…
View article: Soft-gluon effective coupling: perturbative results and the large-nF limit to all orders
Soft-gluon effective coupling: perturbative results and the large-nF limit to all orders Open
A bstract We consider extensions of the soft-gluon effective coupling that generalize the Catani-Marchesini-Webber (CMW) coupling in the context of soft-gluon resummation beyond the next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy. Starting from the p…
View article: $t\bar tH$ production in NNLO QCD
$t\bar tH$ production in NNLO QCD Open
In this contribution we present our recent computation of the NNLO QCD corrections to the production of a Higgs boson associated with a top-antitop quark pair. This process is of great importance since it allows for a direct measurement of…
View article: Precise predictions for the associated production of a $W$ boson with a top-antitop quark pair at the LHC
Precise predictions for the associated production of a $W$ boson with a top-antitop quark pair at the LHC Open
The production of a top-antitop quark pair in association with a $W$ boson ($t\bar tW$) is one of the heaviest signatures currently probed at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Since the first observation reported in 2015 the corresponding r…
View article: Soft-parton contributions to heavy-quark production at low transverse momentum
Soft-parton contributions to heavy-quark production at low transverse momentum Open
A bstract We consider QCD radiative corrections to the production of a heavy-quark pair in hadronic collisions. We present the computation of the soft-parton contributions at low transverse momentum of the heavy-quark pair up to second ord…
View article: Associated production of a <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mi>W</mml:mi></mml:math> boson and massive bottom quarks at next-to-next-to-leading order in QCD
Associated production of a boson and massive bottom quarks at next-to-next-to-leading order in QCD Open
We present the first calculation for the hadroproduction of a W boson in association with a massive bottom (b) quark-antiquark pair at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in QCD perturbation theory. We exploit the hierarchy between the b-…
View article: Higgs Boson Production in Association with a Top-Antitop Quark Pair in Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order QCD
Higgs Boson Production in Association with a Top-Antitop Quark Pair in Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order QCD Open
The associated production of a Higgs boson with a top-antitop quark pair is a crucial process at the LHC since it allows for a direct measurement of the top-quark Yukawa coupling. We present the computation of the radiative corrections to …
View article: Soft-parton contributions to heavy-quark production at low transverse momentum
Soft-parton contributions to heavy-quark production at low transverse momentum Open
We consider QCD radiative corrections to the production of a heavy-quark pair in hadronic collisions. We present the computation of the soft-parton contributions at low transverse momentum of the heavy-quark pair up to second order in the …
View article: Associated production of a $W$ boson and massive bottom quarks at next-to-next-to-leading order in QCD
Associated production of a $W$ boson and massive bottom quarks at next-to-next-to-leading order in QCD Open
We present the first calculation for the hadroproduction of a $W$ boson in association with a massive bottom ($b$) quark-antiquark pair at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in QCD perturbation theory. We exploit the hierarchy between th…
View article: Two-loop mixed QCD-EW corrections to neutral current Drell-Yan
Two-loop mixed QCD-EW corrections to neutral current Drell-Yan Open
We present the mixed QCD-EW two-loop virtual amplitudes for the neutral current Drell-Yan production, one of the bottlenecks for the complete calculation of the NNLO mixed QCD-EW corrections. We present the computational details and the fi…
View article: Higgs boson production in association with a top-antitop quark pair in next-to-next-to leading order QCD
Higgs boson production in association with a top-antitop quark pair in next-to-next-to leading order QCD Open
The associated production of a Higgs boson with a top-antitop quark pair is a crucial process at the LHC since it allows for a direct measurement of the top-quark Yukawa coupling. We present the computation of the radiative corrections to …
View article: Two-loop mixed QCD-EW corrections to neutral current Drell-Yan
Two-loop mixed QCD-EW corrections to neutral current Drell-Yan Open
We present the mixed QCD-EW two-loop virtual amplitudes for the neutral current Drell-Yan production, one of the bottlenecks for the complete calculation of the NNLO mixed QCD-EW corrections. We present the computational details and the fi…
View article: False vacuum decay: an introductory review
False vacuum decay: an introductory review Open
We review the description of tunnelling phenomena in the semi-classical approximation in ordinary quantum mechanics and in quantum field theory. In particular, we describe in detail the calculation, up to the first quantum corrections, of …
View article: Heavy-quark production at NNLO
Heavy-quark production at NNLO Open
We present the calculation of QCD radiative corrections to heavy-quark production at NNLO. The calculation is implemented in an updated version of \textsc{Matrix}, which allows us to obtain multidifferential predictions for stable top quar…
View article: Top-quark hadroproduction in NNLO QCD
Top-quark hadroproduction in NNLO QCD Open
The study of top-quark production and decay is central in the LHC physics programme, allowing precise tests of the Standard Model and offering a window on possible new physics. Accurate theoretical predictions for this process are therefor…