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hep-ph2026

Higgs Boson Pair Production via Gluon Fusion: Higher-Order Corrections and Theoretical Uncertainties

Ajjath A H, Simone Alioli, Emanuele Bagnaschi +51

In this contribution, the higher-order QCD and electroweak corrections to Standard Model Higgs boson pair production via the gluon-fusion mechanism, , are summarized and…

hep-ph2026

Prospects for discovering strongly decaying doubly heavy tetraquark states at LHCb

Mingjie Feng, Yiming Li, Hua-Sheng Shao

We investigate the discovery potential of the state with in proton-proton () collisions at LHCb at a center-of-mass energy of .…

hep-ph2023★ 2 cited

Collider constraints on massive gravitons coupling to photons

David d'Enterria, Malak Ait Tamlihat, Laurent Schoeffel +2

We study the discovery potential of massive graviton-like spin-2 particles coupled to standard model fields, produced in photon-photon collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC)…

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…

hep-ph2023★ 22 cited

Prospects for ditauonium discovery at colliders

David d'Enterria, Hua-Sheng Shao

The feasibility of observing ditauonium, the bound state of two tau leptons, at colliders (BES III at GeV, Belle II at GeV, a future su…

hep-ph2023

Precision predictions for exotic lepton production at the Large Hadron Collider

A. H. Ajjath, Benjamin Fuks, Hua-Sheng Shao +1

We calculate total and differential cross sections for the pair production, at the Large Hadron Collider, of exotic leptons that could emerge from models with vector-like leptons a…

hep-ph2022★ 36 cited

NLO+NLL QCD improved Higgs pair cross sections

A. H. Ajjath, Hua-Sheng Shao

We report a new calculation of the soft-gluon threshold resummation for the Higgs boson pair production in the dominant production mode -- gluon-gluon fusion -- up to the next-to-n…

hep-ph2022★ 65 cited

gamma-UPC: Automated generation of exclusive photon-photon processes in ultraperipheral proton and nuclear collisions with varying form factors

Hua-Sheng Shao, David d'Enterria

The automated generation of arbitrary exclusive final states produced via photon fusion in ultraperipheral high-energy collisions of protons and/or nuclei is implemented in the Mad…

hep-ph2022★ 13 cited

Ditauonium spectroscopy

David d'Enterria, Redamy Perez-Ramos, Hua-Sheng Shao

We examine the properties of ditauonium, an exotic atom consisting of a pair of opposite-sign leptons bound together by the quantum electrodynamics (QED) interaction in a hydro…

hep-ph2022

Observing true tauonium via two-photon fusion at and hadron colliders

David d'Enterria, Hua-Sheng Shao

The feasibility of observing true tauonium, the bound state of two tau leptons, , via photon-photon collisions at colliders and at the LHC,…

hep-ph2021★ 24 cited

Revisiting NLO QCD corrections to total inclusive J/psi and Upsilon photoproduction cross sections in lepton-proton collisions

Alice Colpani Serri, Yu Feng, Carlo Flore +4

We revisit inclusive J/psi and Upsilon photoproduction at lepton-hadron colliders, namely in the limit when the exchanged photon is quasi real. Our computation includes the next-to…

hep-ph2021

NLO inclusive photoproduction at large at HERA and the EIC

Carlo Flore, Jean-Philippe Lansberg, Hua-Sheng Shao +1

We study inclusive photoproduction at NLO at large at HERA and the EIC. Our computation includes NLO QCD leading- corrections, QED contributions via an off-shell p…

hep-ph2021★ 31 cited

Automated EW corrections with isolated photons: , and as case studies

Davide Pagani, Hua-Sheng Shao, Ioannis Tsinikos +1

In this work we compute for the first time the so-called Complete-NLO predictions for top-quark pair hadroproduction in association with at least one isolated photon (…

hep-ph2021

Single production of vector-like quarks: the effects of large width, interference and NLO corrections

Aldo Deandrea, Thomas Flacke, Benjamin Fuks +2

We provide a comprehensive discussion, together with a complete setup for simulations, relevant for the production of a single vector-like quark at hadron colliders. Our prediction…

hep-ph2021★ 32 cited

Reweighted nuclear PDFs using Heavy-Flavor Production Data at the LHC: nCTEQ15_rwHF & EPPS16_rwHF

Aleksander Kusina, Jean-Philippe Lansberg, Ingo Schienbein +1

We present the reweighting of two sets of nuclear PDFs, nCTEQ15 and EPPS16, using a selection of experimental data on heavy-flavor meson [D0, J/psi, J/psi from B and Upsilon(1S)] p…

hep-ph2020★ 18 cited

Prospects for quarkonium studies at the high-luminosity LHC

Emilien Chapon, David d'Enterria, Bertrand Ducloue +48

Prospects for quarkonium-production studies accessible during the upcoming high-luminosity phases of the CERN Large Hadron Collider operation after 2021 are reviewed. Current exper…

hep-ph2020

Higgs boson pair production at NLO QCD

Long-Bin Chen, Hai Tao Li, Hua-Sheng Shao +1

Understanding the Higgs potential by measuring its self-interactions is fundamental in answering several big questions, such as electroweak symmetry breaking, electroweak baryogene…

hep-ph2020

Associated production in pp and heavy ion collisions

Hua-Sheng Shao

Associated particle production processes in pp and heavy ion collisions at the LHC are in particular interesting in the sense that they provide unique tools to study double parton…

hep-ph2020★ 38 cited

Large-P_T inclusive photoproduction of J/psi in electron-proton collisions at HERA and the EIC

Carlo Flore, Jean-Philippe Lansberg, Hua-Sheng Shao +1

We study the inclusive J/psi production at large transverse momenta at lepton-hadron colliders in the limit when the exchange photon is quasi real, also referred to as photoproduct…

hep-ph2020★ 3 cited

Rare two-body decays of the top quark into a bottom meson plus an up or charm quark

David d'Enterria, Hua-Sheng Shao

Rare two-body decays of the top quark into a neutral bottom-quark meson plus an up- or charm-quark: ; ; and $t \to Υ(nS)+…

hep-ph2020★ 14 cited

meson production in association with an open charm hadron at the LHC: A reappraisal

Hua-Sheng Shao

We critically (re)examine the associated production process of a meson plus an open charm hadron at the LHC in the proton-proton () and proton-lead () collisio…

hep-ph2020★ 27 cited

RIP : How other Higgs production modes conspire to kill a rare signal at the LHC

Davide Pagani, Hua-Sheng Shao, Marco Zaro

The hadroproduction of a Higgs boson in association with a bottom-quark pair () is commonly considered as the key process for directly probing the Yukawa interaction be…

hep-ph2020★ 34 cited

Complete NLO QCD study of single- and double-quarkonium hadroproduction in the colour-evaporation model at the Tevatron and the LHC

Jean-Philippe Lansberg, Hua-Sheng Shao, Nodoka Yamanaka +2

We study the Single-Parton-Scattering (SPS) production of double quarkonia (J/psi+J/psi, J/psi+Upsilon, and Upsilon+Upsilon) in pp and pp(bar) collisions at the LHC and the Tevatro…

hep-ph2020★ 79 cited

Reinterpretation of LHC Results for New Physics: Status and Recommendations after Run 2

Waleed Abdallah, Shehu AbdusSalam, Azar Ahmadov +139

We report on the status of efforts to improve the reinterpretation of searches and measurements at the LHC in terms of models for new physics, in the context of the LHC Reinterpret…