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hep-ph2011

Compatibility of global NPDF analyses of neutrino DIS and charged-lepton DIS data

K. Kovarik, I. Schienbein, F. I. Olness +5

The neutrino deep inelastic scattering (DIS) data is very interesting for global analyses of proton and nuclear parton distribution functions (PDFs) since they provide crucial info…

hep-ph2011★ 28 cited

Impact of PDF uncertainties at large x on heavy boson production

L. T. Brady, A. Accardi, W. Melnitchouk +1

We explore the sensitivity of W and Z boson production in hadronic collisions to uncertainties in parton distribution functions (PDFs) at large x arising from uncertainties in nucl…

hep-ph2011★ 17 cited

Towards W b bbar + j at NLO with an automatized approach to one-loop computations

Laura Reina, Thomas Schutzmeier

We present results for the O(alpha_s) virtual corrections to q g -> W b bbar q' obtained with a new automatized approach to the evaluation of one-loop amplitudes in terms of Feynma…

hep-ph2011★ 94 cited

Interpreting LHC SUSY searches in the phenomenological MSSM

S. Sekmen, S. Kraml, J. Lykken +6

We interpret within the phenomenological MSSM (pMSSM) the results of SUSY searches published by the CMS collaboration based on the first ~1 fb^-1 of data taken during the 2011 LHC…

hep-ph2011★ 13 cited

Effective Field Theory for a Heavy Majorana Fermion

Karoline Kopp, Takemichi Okui

We formulate an effective theory for systems containing a heavy Majorana fermion, such as bound states of a long-lived gluino. This "Majorana HQET" has the same degrees of freedom…

hep-ph2011★ 29 cited

NLO QCD predictions for W+1 jet and W+2 jet production with at least one b jet at the 7 TeV LHC

F. Caola, J. M. Campbell, F. Febres Cordero +2

We calculate the production of a W boson in association with up to two jets including at least one b-jet to next-to-leading order (NLO) in QCD at the CERN Large Hadron Collider wit…

hep-ph2011★ 2 cited

Z-Sum Approach to Loop Integrals using Taylor Expansion

Paulo A. Rottmann, Laura Reina

We study the applicability of the Z-Sum approach to multi-loop calculations with massive particles in perturbative quantum field theory. We systematically analyze the case of one-l…

hep-ph2011★ 10 cited

Measuring Top Squark Interactions With The Standard Model Through Associated Production

Spencer Chang, Can Kilic, Takemichi Okui

A new particle's interactions can be measured at colliders, by observing its associated production with Standard Model particles. We focus on the case of a collider-stable right-ha…

hep-ph2011★ 477 cited

Simplified Models for LHC New Physics Searches

Daniele Alves, Nima Arkani-Hamed, Sanjay Arora +92

This document proposes a collection of simplified models relevant to the design of new-physics searches at the LHC and the characterization of their results. Both ATLAS and CMS hav…

hep-ph2011★ 40 cited

W b bbar production in POWHEG

Carlo Oleari, Laura Reina

We present an implementation of the next-to-leading order hadronic production of a W boson in association with a pair of massive bottom quarks in the framework of POWHEG, a method…

hep-ph2011★ 38 cited

A unified, flavor symmetric explanation for the t-tbar asymmetry and Wjj excess at CDF

Ann E. Nelson, Takemichi Okui, Tuhin S. Roy

We present a simple, perturbative, and renormalizable model with a flavor symmetry which can explain both the t-tbar forward-backward asymmetry and the bump feature present in the…

hep-ph2011★ 40 cited

Probing gluon and heavy-quark nuclear PDFs with photon + heavy quark production in pA collisions

T. Stavreva, I. Schienbein, F. Arleo +4

We present a detailed phenomenological study of direct photon production in association with a heavy-quark jet in pA collisions at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) and at…