Standard Model Theory for Collider Physics

Abstract

I briefly review the current theoretical description of Standard Model processes relevant for the LHC, and the tools that are used in the corresponding phenomenological applications. I discuss in particular the recent theoretical progress in NLO and NNLO QCD calculations, electroweak corrections, resummations, Monte Carlo tools and parton distribution functions.

Plenary talk given at EPS-HEP 2015 conference, Vienna, july 2015

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• Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
• The automated computation of tree-level and next-to-leading order differential cross sections, and their matching to parton shower simulations
• Event generation with SHERPA 1.1
• PDF4LHC recommendations for LHC Run II
• Vector boson production at hadron colliders: a fully exclusive QCD calculation at NNLO
• Higgs boson gluon-fusion production in N3LO QCD
• A novel subtraction scheme for double-real radiation at NNLO
• Automation of next-to-leading order computations in QCD: the FKS subtraction
• Z-boson production in association with a jet at next-to-next-to-leading order in perturbative QCD
• GoSam-2.0: a tool for automated one-loop calculations within the Standard Model and beyond
• High-precision differential predictions for top-quark pairs at the LHC
• NNLO predictions for the Higgs boson signal in the H->WW->lnu lnu and H->ZZ->4l decay channels
• Precise QCD predictions for the production of Higgs+jet final states
• $W^{\pm }Z$ production at the LHC: fiducial cross sections and distributions in NNLO QCD
• Tops from Light Quarks: Full Mass Dependence at Two-Loops in QCD
• Polarizing the Dipoles
• Mixed QCD-electroweak O(α_sα) corrections to Drell-Yan processes in the resonance region: pole approximation and non-factorizable corrections
• Two-Loop Fermionic Corrections to Heavy-Quark Pair Production: the Quark-Antiquark Channel
• The N-jettiness soft function at next-to-next-to-leading order
• Dominant mixed QCD-electroweak $\mathcal{O}({\alpha }_s\alpha )$ corrections to Drell-Yan processes in the resonance region
• Electroweak and QCD corrections to top-pair hadroproduction in association with heavy bosons
• Perturbative QCD description of jet data from LHC Run-I and Tevatron Run-II
• NLO electroweak automation and precise predictions for W+multijet production at the LHC