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hep-ph2025★ 1 cited

Amplitude Surrogates for Multi-Jet Processes

Luca Beccatini, Fabio Maltoni, Olivier Mattelaer +1

Accurate and efficient amplitude predictions are essential for precision studies of multi-jet processes at the LHC. We introduce a novel neural network architecture that predicts m…

hep-ph2025★ 1 cited

Modelling production for the LHC at 13.6 TeV

Christian Biello, Alessandro Gavardi, Rebecca von Kuk +10

We present new state-of-the-art predictions for Standard Model Higgs boson production in association with a bottom-quark pair (). Updated cross sections are computed in a…

hep-ph2025★ 2 cited

New insights from the flavor dependence of quark transverse momentum distributions in the pion

Lorenzo Rossi, Alessandro Bacchetta, Matteo Cerutti +1

We update our previous extraction of transverse momentum distributions of unpolarized quarks in the pion by implementing a more comprehensive description of theoretical uncertainti…

hep-ph2025★ 2 cited

FASTColor -- Full-color Amplitude Surrogate Toolkit for QCD

Javier Mariño Villadamigo, Rikkert Frederix, Tilman Plehn +2

High-multiplicity events remain a bottleneck for LHC simulations due to their computational cost. We present a ML-surrogate approach to accelerate matrix element reweighting from l…

hep-ph2025★ 2 cited

Amplitude Uncertainties Everywhere All at Once

Henning Bahl, Nina Elmer, Tilman Plehn +1

Ultra-fast, precise, and controlled amplitude surrogates are essential for future LHC event generation. First, we investigate the noise reduction and biases of network ensembles an…

hep-ph2025★ 2 cited

Higgs production via vector-boson fusion at the LHC

Gaetano Barone, Jiayi Chen, Stephane Cooperstein +12

In this article, we summarise the recent experimental measurements and theoretical work on Higgs boson production via vector-boson fusion at the LHC. Along with this, we provide st…

hep-ph2025

The Physics Behind ML-based Quark-Gluon Taggers

Sophia Vent, Ramon Winterhalder, Tilman Plehn

Jet taggers provide an ideal testbed for applying explainability techniques to powerful ML tools. For theoretically and experimentally challenging quark-gluon tagging, we first ide…

hep-ph2025

Theoretical modeling of QCD radiation in off-shell Higgs production through gluon fusion

Rafael Coelho Lopes de Sá, Martina Javurkova, Matteo Lazzeretti +1

The measurement of the Higgs boson width is a critical test of the Standard Model, with significant implications for understanding electroweak symmetry breaking. Direct measurement…

hep-ph2025★ 4 cited

Precision phenomenology at multi-TeV muon colliders

Stefano Frixione, Fabio Maltoni, Davide Pagani +1

Future lepton colliders, such as those based on linear or circular accelerators, are expected to attain centre-of-mass energies in the multi-TeV range. In this re…

hep-ph2025★ 2 cited

Fermionic sub-GeV Dark Matter from evaporating Primordial Black Holes at DarkSide-50

50 Collaboration, P. Agnes, I. F. Albuquerque +125

We present a search for boosted dark matter from Primordial Black Holes (PBH) evaporation using the DarkSide-50 ionization-signal-only dataset corresponding to the experiment's ($1…

hep-ph2025★ 7 cited

Les Houches 2023 -- Physics at TeV Colliders: Report on the Standard Model Precision Wishlist

Alexander Huss, Joey Huston, Stephen Jones +2

Les Houches returned to an in-person format in 2023 and the bi-yearly tradition of updating the standard model precision wishlist has continued. In this work we review recent progr…

hep-ph2025★ 2 cited

BitHEP -- The Limits of Low-Precision ML in HEP

Claudius Krause, Daohan Wang, Ramon Winterhalder

The increasing complexity of modern neural network architectures demands fast and memory-efficient implementations to mitigate computational bottlenecks. In this work, we evaluate…

hep-ph2025★ 31 cited

Quantum Information meets High-Energy Physics: Input to the update of the European Strategy for Particle Physics

Yoav Afik, Federica Fabbri, Matthew Low +68

Some of the most astonishing and prominent properties of Quantum Mechanics, such as entanglement and Bell nonlocality, have only been studied extensively in dedicated low-energy la…

hep-ph2025★ 2 cited

State-of-the-art cross sections for ttH: NNLO predictions matched with NNLL resummation and EW corrections

Roger Balsach, Alessandro Broggio, Simone Devoto +13

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 W…

hep-ph2025★ 1 cited

Evaluating Feynman Integrals through differential equations and series expansions

Tommaso Armadillo

We review the method of the differential equations for the evaluation of multi-loop Feynman integrals. In particular, we focus on the series expansion approach for solving the syst…

hep-ph2024★ 8 cited

Accurate Surrogate Amplitudes with Calibrated Uncertainties

Henning Bahl, Nina Elmer, Luigi Favaro +3

Neural networks for LHC physics have to be accurate, reliable, and controlled. Using neural surrogates for the prediction of loop amplitudes as a use case, we first show how activa…

hep-ph2024★ 23 cited

From angular coefficients to quantum observables: a phenomenological appraisal in di-boson systems

Michele Grossi, Giovanni Pelliccioli, Alessandro Vicini

Motivated by the growing interest in accessing the spin structure of multi-boson processes and in measuring quantum entanglement at high energies, we study polarisation and spin-co…

hep-ph2024★ 9 cited

EW corrections and Heavy Boson Radiation at a high-energy muon collider

Yang Ma, Davide Pagani, Marco Zaro

In this work we investigate several phenomenological and technical aspects related to electroweak (EW) corrections at a high-energy muon collider, focusing on direct production pro…

hep-ph2024★ 3 cited

Linear power corrections to single top production and decay at the LHC in the narrow width approximation

Sergei Makarov, Kirill Melnikov, Paolo Nason +1

We consider top quark production and decay in the narrow width approximation and study if the polarisation effects, that manifest themselves in correlations of angular distribution…

hep-ph2024★ 8 cited

Simultaneous Extraction of the Weak Radius and the Weak Mixing Angle from Parity-Violating Electron Scattering on

Matteo Cadeddu, Nicola Cargioli, Jens Erler +4

We study the impact of nuclear structure uncertainties on a measurement of the weak charge of at the future MESA facility in Mainz. Information from a large varie…

hep-ph2024★ 4 cited

The and spectra in top-antitop hadroproduction at NNLL+NNLO: the interplay of soft-collinear resummation and Coulomb singularities

Wan-Li Ju, Marek Schoenherr

In this paper, we present the resummation-improved differential transverse momentum and azimuthal decorrelation cross sections, and $dσ_{t\bar{t}}/d…

hep-ph2024★ 14 cited

Yadism: Yet Another Deep-Inelastic Scattering Module

Alessandro Candido, Felix Hekhorn, Giacomo Magni +2

We present yadism, a library for the evaluation of both polarized and unpolarized deep-inelastic scattering (DIS) structure functions and cross sections up to NLO in perturbati…

hep-ph2023★ 56 cited

Precise predictions for the associated production of a boson with a top-antitop quark pair at the LHC

Luca Buonocore, Simone Devoto, Massimiliano Grazzini +4

The production of a top-antitop quark pair in association with a boson () is one of the heaviest signatures currently probed at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Since…

hep-ph2023

UFO 2.0 -- The Universal Feynman Output format

Luc Darmé, Céline Degrande, Claude Duhr +16

We present an update of the Universal FeynRules Output model format, commonly known as the UFO format, that is used by several automated matrix-element generators and high-energy p…