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Exact color sums for multi-gluon amplitudes: direct, multiplet and symmetric-group Fourier methods
Rikkert Frederix, Valentin Hirschi, Malin Sjödahl
We compare three approaches for computing color-summed tree-level all-gluon squared matrix elements: evaluation using direct contraction in the trace and adjoint decompositions, or…
Light-by-Light Scattering at Next-to-Leading Order in QCD and QED
Ajjath A H, Ekta Chaubey, Mathijs Fraaije +2
The recent experimental observation of Light-by-Light (LbL) scattering at the Large Hadron Collider has revived interest in this fundamental process, and especially of the accurate…
Next-to-leading-order QCD Corrections to Higgs Production in association with a Jet
R. Bonciani, V. Del Duca, H. Frellesvig +6
We compute the next-to-leading-order (NLO) QCD corrections to the Higgs pT distribution in Higgs production in association with a jet via gluon fusion at the LHC, with exact depend…
Higgs production in bottom quark fusion: Matching the 4- and 5-flavour schemes to third order in the strong coupling
Claude Duhr, Falko Dulat, Valentin Hirschi +1
We present analytic results for the partonic cross sections for the production of a Higgs boson via the fusion of two bottom quarks at NLO in QCD perturbation theory in the fiv…
Automated simulations beyond the Standard Model: supersymmetry
Stefano Frixione, Benjamin Fuks, Valentin Hirschi +4
The MadGraph5 aMC@NLO framework aims to automate all types of leading- and next-to-leading-order-accurate simulations for any user-defined model that stems from a renormalisable La…
Proposal for the validation of Monte Carlo implementations of the standard model effective field theory
Gauthier Durieux, Ilaria Brivio, Fabio Maltoni +38
We propose a procedure to cross-validate Monte Carlo implementations of the standard model effective field theory. It is based on the numerical comparison of squared amplitudes com…
Beyond the Standard Model Physics at the HL-LHC and HE-LHC
X. Cid Vidal, M. D'Onofrio, P. J. Fox +294
This is the third out of five chapters of the final report [1] of the Workshop on Physics at HL-LHC, and perspectives on HE-LHC [2]. It is devoted to the study of the potential, in…
Constraining anomalous gluon self-interactions at the LHC: a reappraisal
V. Hirschi, F. Maltoni, I. Tsinikos +1
Anomalous self-interactions of non-abelian gauge fields can be described by higher dimensional operators featuring gauge-invariant combinations of the field strengths. In the case…
The automation of next-to-leading order electroweak calculations
R. Frederix, S. Frixione, V. Hirschi +3
We present the key features relevant to the automated computation of all the leading- and next-to-leading order contributions to short-distance cross sections in a mixed-coupling e…
Les Houches 2017: Physics at TeV Colliders Standard Model Working Group Report
J. Bendavid, F. Caola, V. Ciulli +102
This Report summarizes the proceedings of the 2017 Les Houches workshop on Physics at TeV Colliders. Session 1 dealt with (I) new developments relevant for high precision Standard…
The complete NLO corrections to dijet hadroproduction
Rikkert Frederix, Stefano Frixione, Valentin Hirschi +3
We study the production of jets in hadronic collisions, by computing all contributions proportional to , with and . These correspond to leading and next-to…
Physics at a 100 TeV pp collider: Standard Model processes
M. L. Mangano, G. Zanderighi, J. A. Aguilar Saavedra +73
This report summarises the properties of Standard Model processes at the 100 TeV pp collider. We document the production rates and typical distributions for a number of benchmark S…
Accurate predictions for charged Higgs production: closing the window
Celine Degrande, Rikkert Frederix, Valentin Hirschi +3
We present predictions for the total cross section for the production of a charged Higgs boson in the intermediate-mass range () at the LHC, focusing on a type…
NLO predictions for the production of a spin-two particle at the LHC
Goutam Das, Celine Degrande, Valentin Hirschi +2
We obtain predictions accurate at the next-to-leading order in QCD for the production of a generic spin-two particle in the most relevant channels at the LHC: production in associa…
Matching next-to-leading order predictions to parton showers in supersymmetric QCD
Celine Degrande, Benjamin Fuks, Valentin Hirschi +2
We present a fully automated framework based on the FeynRules and MadGraph5 aMC@NLO programs that allows for accurate simulations of supersymmetric QCD processes at the LHC. Starti…
Spin Polarisation of production at NLO+PS with GoSam interfaced to MadGraph5_aMC@NLO
Hans van Deurzen, Rikkert Frederix, Valentin Hirschi +3
We present an interface between the multipurpose NLO Monte Carlo tool MadGraph5_aMC@NLO and the automated one-loop amplitude generator GoSam. As a first application of this novel f…
Automated next-to-leading order predictions for new physics at the LHC: the case of colored scalar pair production
Céline Degrande, Benjamin Fuks, Valentin Hirschi +2
We present for the first time the full automation of collider predictions matched with parton showers at the next-to-leading accuracy in QCD within non-trivial extensions of the St…
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…
Weak corrections to Higgs hadroproduction in association with a top-quark pair
S. Frixione, V. Hirschi, D. Pagani +2
We present the calculation of the next-to-leading contribution of order to the production of a Standard Model Higgs boson in association with a top-quark pair at hadron…
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…
Higgs pair production at the LHC with NLO and parton-shower effects
R. Frederix, S. Frixione, V. Hirschi +5
We present predictions for the SM-Higgs-pair production channels of relevance at the LHC: gluon-gluon fusion, VBF, and top-pair, W, Z and single-top associated production. All thes…
Update of the Binoth Les Houches Accord for a standard interface between Monte Carlo tools and one-loop programs
S. Alioli, S. Badger, J. Bellm +44
We present an update of the Binoth Les Houches Accord (BLHA) to standardise the interface between Monte Carlo programs and codes providing one-loop matrix elements.
Single-top -channel production with off-shell and non-resonant effects
A. S. Papanastasiou, R. Frederix, S. Frixione +2
This letter details and discusses the next-to-leading order QCD corrections to -channel electro-weak production, where finite top-width effects are consistently taken…
New developments in MadLoop
Valentin Hirschi
This proceeding relates the recent developments of the MadLoop tool. MadLoop automates the computation of one-loop QCD corrections to an arbitrary scattering process in the Standar…