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hep-ph2014★ 1.8k cited

LHAPDF6: parton density access in the LHC precision era

Andy Buckley, James Ferrando, Stephen Lloyd +5

The Fortran LHAPDF library has been a long-term workhorse in particle physics, providing standardised access to parton density functions for experimental and phenomenological purpo…

hep-ph2014★ 65 cited

Pseudo-observables in Higgs decays

Martin Gonzalez-Alonso, Admir Greljo, Gino Isidori +1

We define a set of pseudo-observables characterizing the properties of Higgs decays in generic extensions of the Standard Model with no new particles below the Higgs mass. The pseu…

hep-ph2014★ 14 cited

NLO electroweak automation and precise predictions for W+multijet production at the LHC

Stefan Kallweit, Jonas M. Lindert, Philipp Maierhöfer +2

We present a fully automated implementation of next-to-leading order electroweak (NLO EW) corrections in the OpenLoops matrix-element generator combined with the Sherpa and Munich…

hep-ph2014★ 77 cited

Softened Gravity and the Extension of the Standard Model up to Infinite Energy

Gian F. Giudice, Gino Isidori, Alberto Salvio +1

Attempts to solve naturalness by having the weak scale as the only breaking of classical scale invariance have to deal with two severe difficulties: gravity and the absence of Land…

hep-ph2014★ 22 cited

Minimal muon anomalous magnetic moment

Carla Biggio, Marzia Bordone

We classify all possible one-particle (scalar and fermion) extensions of the Standard Model that can contribute to the anomalous magnetic moment of leptons. We review the cases alr…

hep-ph2014★ 78 cited

Two-loop splitting amplitudes and the single-real contribution to inclusive Higgs production at N3LO

Claude Duhr, Thomas Gehrmann, Matthieu Jaquier

The factorisation of QCD matrix elements in the limit of two external partons becoming collinear is described by process-independent splitting amplitudes, which can be expanded sys…

hep-ph2014★ 22 cited

Transverse momentum resummation for Higgs production via gluon fusion in the MSSM

Robert V. Harlander, Hendrik Mantler, Marius Wiesemann

The resummed transverse momentum distribution of supersymmetric Higgs bosons produced through gluon fusion at NLO+NLL is presented, including the exact quark and squark mass depend…

hep-ph2014★ 57 cited

LHC Tests of Light Neutralino Dark Matter without Light Sfermions

Lorenzo Calibbi, Jonas M. Lindert, Toshihiko Ota +1

We address the question how light the lightest MSSM neutralino can be as dark matter candidate in a scenario where all supersymmetric scalar particles are heavy. The hypothesis tha…

hep-ph2014★ 160 cited

Higgs boson pair production in the D=6 extension of the SM

Florian Goertz, Andreas Papaefstathiou, Li Lin Yang +1

We derive the constraints that can be imposed on the dimension-6 effective theory extension of the Standard Model, using gluon fusion-initiated Higgs boson pair production at the L…

hep-ph2014★ 64 cited

Production of Sterile Neutrino Dark Matter and the 3.5 keV line

Alexander Merle, Aurel Schneider

The recent observation of an X-ray line at an energy of 3.5 keV mainly from galaxy clusters has initiated a discussion about whether we may have seen a possible dark matter signal.…

hep-ph2014★ 136 cited

Higgs production in association with bottom quarks

M. Wiesemann, R. Frederix, S. Frixione +3

We study the production of a Higgs boson in association with bottom quarks in hadronic collisions, and present phenomenological predictions relevant to the 13 TeV LHC. Our results…

hep-ph2014★ 17 cited

Light fermionic NNLO QCD corrections to top-antitop production in the quark-antiquark channel

Gabriel Abelof, Aude Gehrmann-De Ridder

We present the NNLO corrections to top pair production in the quark-antiquark channel proportional to the number of light quark flavors . While the double real corrections wer…

hep-ph2014★ 77 cited

Finite top-mass effects in gluon-induced Higgs production with a jet-veto at NNLO

Tobias Neumann, Marius Wiesemann

Effects from a finite top quark mass on the H+n-jet cross section through gluon fusion are studied for at NNLO/NLO QCD. For this purpose, sub-leading terms in …

hep-ph2014★ 236 cited

Precise QCD predictions for the production of Higgs+jet final states

X. Chen, T. Gehrmann, E. W. N. Glover +1

We compute the cross section and differential distributions for the production of a Standard Model Higgs boson in association with a hadronic jet to next-to-next-to-leading order i…

hep-ph2014★ 324 cited

production at hadron colliders in NNLO QCD

T. Gehrmann, M. Grazzini, S. Kallweit +5

Charged gauge boson pair production at the Large Hadron Collider allows detailed probes of the fundamental structure of electroweak interactions. We present precise theoretical pre…

hep-ph2014★ 109 cited

Transverse-momentum resummation for heavy-quark hadroproduction

S. Catani, M. Grazzini, A. Torre

We consider the production of a pair of heavy quarks () in hadronic collisions. When the transverse momentum of the heavy-quark pair is much smaller than its invar…

hep-ph2014★ 82 cited

The decay in a systematic effective field theory approach with dimension 6 operators

Giovanni Marco Pruna, Adrian Signer

We implement a systematic effective field theory approach to the benchmark process , performing automated one-loop computations including dimension 6 operators and studyi…

hep-ph2014★ 155 cited

Associated ZH production at hadron colliders: the fully differential NNLO QCD calculation

Giancarlo Ferrera, Massimiliano Grazzini, Francesco Tramontano

We consider Standard Model Higgs boson production in association with a Z boson in hadron collisions. We present a fully exclusive computation of QCD radiative corrections up to ne…

hep-ph2014★ 35 cited

Renormalization-group improved fully differential cross sections for top pair production

A. Broggio, A. S. Papanastasiou, A. Signer

We extend approximate next-to-next-to-leading order results for top-pair production to include the semi-leptonic decays of top quarks in the narrow-width approximation. The new har…

hep-ph2014★ 3 cited

Vector-boson pair production at NNLO

M. Grazzini

We consider the inclusive production of vector-boson pairs in hadron collisions. We review the theoretical progress in the computation of radiative corrections to this process up t…

hep-ph2014★ 53 cited

The form factor to three loops in QCD

Thomas Gehrmann, Dominik Kara

We compute the three-loop QCD corrections to the vertex function for the Yukawa coupling of a Higgs boson to a pair of bottom quarks in the limit of vanishing quark masses. This QC…

hep-ph2014★ 124 cited

Threshold resummation at NLL accuracy and soft-virtual cross sections at NLO

S. Catani, L. Cieri, D. de Florian +2

We consider QCD radiative corrections to the production of colourless high-mass systems in hadron collisions. We show that the recent computation of the soft-virtual corrections to…

hep-ph2014★ 426 cited

ZZ production at hadron colliders in NNLO QCD

F. Cascioli, T. Gehrmann, M. Grazzini +7

We report on the first calculation of next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) QCD corrections to the inclusive production of ZZ pairs at hadron colliders. Numerical results are presen…

hep-ph2014★ 7.9k cited

The automated computation of tree-level and next-to-leading order differential cross sections, and their matching to parton shower simulations

J. Alwall, R. Frederix, S. Frixione +7

We discuss the theoretical bases that underpin the automation of the computations of tree-level and next-to-leading order cross sections, of their matching to parton shower simulat…