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

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79 papers

hep-ph2026

Resonance-aware electroweak Sudakov reweighting for multijet-merged predictions

Lenart Jerala, Rikkert Frederix, Miha Muškinja +3

We present a resonance-aware extension of electroweak Sudakov-logarithm reweighting in MadGraph5_aMC@NLO for NLO QCD-matched and FxFx multijet-merged event samples. The method iden…

hep-ph2026

Simulations and flavour-scheme studies for Higgs-boson production in association with charm quarks

Tiziano Bevilacqua, Christian Biello, Lea Michela Caminada +5

We present a detailed NLO+PS study of Higgs-boson production in association with charm and bottom quarks, with particular focus on the modelling of the H+c final state. We systemat…

hep-ph2026

The inseparable three and four tops

Gauthier Durieux, Hesham El Faham, Rikkert Frederix +2

In measurements of four-top-quark production (), LHC collaborations observe a significant degeneracy with three-top-quark production. We compute the dominant three-top-produc…

hep-ph2026

MadNIS at NLO

Giovanni De Crescenzo, Javier Mariño Villadamigo, Nina Elmer +4

We combine fast amplitude surrogates with neural importance sampling to accelerate NLO calculations. For virtual corrections, a learned ratio to the Born matrix element with calibr…

hep-ph2026

A multi-event interface for next-to-leading order calculations in MadGraph5_aMC@NLO

Rikkert Frederix, Stefan Roiser, Robert Schöfbeck +2

We detail the implementation of a multi-event interface for next-to-leading order (NLO) calculations in MadGraph5_aMC@NLO, allowing tree-level scattering amplitudes for multiple ph…

hep-ph2025★ 1 cited

Modelling production for the LHC at 13.6 TeV

Christian Biello, Alessandro Gavardi, Rebecca von Kuk +10

We present new state-of-the-art predictions for Standard Model Higgs boson production in association with a bottom-quark pair (). Updated cross sections are computed in a…

hep-ph2025★ 2 cited

Higgs production via vector-boson fusion at the LHC

Gaetano Barone, Jiayi Chen, Stephane Cooperstein +12

In this article, we summarise the recent experimental measurements and theoretical work on Higgs boson production via vector-boson fusion at the LHC. Along with this, we provide st…

hep-ph2025

Double neutral-current corrections to NLO electroweak leptonic cross sections

Stefano Frixione, Fabio Maltoni, Davide Pagani +1

We present a method for improving next-to-leading order electroweak (EW) predictions for lepton-scattering processes by consistently including double neutral-current corrections ar…

hep-ph2025★ 4 cited

Precision phenomenology at multi-TeV muon colliders

Stefano Frixione, Fabio Maltoni, Davide Pagani +1

Future lepton colliders, such as those based on linear or circular accelerators, are expected to attain centre-of-mass energies in the multi-TeV range. In this re…

hep-ph2025★ 2 cited

Hardware acceleration for next-to-leading order event generation within MadGraph5_aMC@NLO

Zenny Wettersten, Olivier Mattelaer, Stefan Roiser +2

As the quality of experimental measurements increases, so does the need for Monte Carlo-generated simulated events - both with respect to the total amount and to their precision. I…

hep-ph2025★ 2 cited

State-of-the-art cross sections for ttH: NNLO predictions matched with NNLL resummation and EW corrections

Roger Balsach, Alessandro Broggio, Simone Devoto +13

We present new, state-of-the-art predictions for the associated production of the SM Higgs boson with top quarks, computed in accordance with the recommendations of the LHC Higgs W…

hep-ph2024★ 1 cited

Electroweak corrections in the SMEFT: four-fermion operators at high energies

Hesham El Faham, Ken Mimasu, Davide Pagani +3

In the Standard Model (SM), electroweak (EW) corrections become significant at high energies, particularly at the tera-electronvolt scale and beyond, due to the presence of Sudakov…

hep-ph2024★ 9 cited

EW corrections and Heavy Boson Radiation at a high-energy muon collider

Yang Ma, Davide Pagani, Marco Zaro

In this work we investigate several phenomenological and technical aspects related to electroweak (EW) corrections at a high-energy muon collider, focusing on direct production pro…

hep-ph2024★ 1 cited

Ad interim recommendations for the Higgs boson production cross sections at TeV

Alexander Karlberg, Julie Malcles, Bernhard Mistlberger +21

This note documents predictions for the inclusive production cross sections of the Standard Model Higgs boson at the Large Hadron Collider at a centre of mass energy of 13.6 TeV. T…

hep-ph2023★ 1 cited

Improving NLO QCD event generators with high-energy EW corrections

Davide Pagani, Timea Vitos, Marco Zaro

In this work we present a new approach for the combination of electroweak (EW) corrections at high energies, the so-called EW Sudakov logarithms (EWSL), and next-to-leading-order Q…

hep-ph2023★ 2 cited

Taming a leading theoretical uncertainty in HH measurements via accurate simulations for bbH production

Stefano Manzoni, Elena Mazzeo, Javier Mazzitelli +2

We present a new simulation for Higgs boson production in association with bottom quarks () at next-to-leading order (NLO) accuracy matched to parton showers in hadronic…

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-ph2022★ 7 cited

Local analytic sector subtraction for initial- and final-state radiation at NLO in massless QCD

Gloria Bertolotti, Paolo Torrielli, Sandro Uccirati +1

Within the framework of local analytic sector subtraction, we present the subtraction of next-to-leading-order QCD singularities for processes featuring massless coloured particles…

hep-ph2022★ 14 cited

Resummation effects in the bottom-quark fragmentation function

Fabio Maltoni, Giovanni Ridolfi, Maria Ubiali +1

We compute the perturbative component of the fragmentation function of the quark to the best of the present theoretical knowledge. The fixed-order calculation to order …

hep-ph2022★ 1 cited

Improving methods and predictions at high-energy colliders within collinear factorisation

V. Bertone, M. Cacciari, S. Frixione +3

We illustrate how electron Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs) with next-to-leading collinear logarithmic accuracy must be employed in the context of perturbative predictions for…

hep-ph2022★ 7 cited

Sensitivity to New Physics in final states with multiple gauge and Higgs bosons

Alessandra Cappati, Roberto Covarelli, Paolo Torrielli +1

We analyse the sensitivity to beyond-the-Standard-Model effects of hadron-collider processes involving the interaction of two electroweak and two Higgs bosons, VVHH, with V being e…

hep-ph2022

Initial state QED radiation aspects for future colliders

S. Frixione, E. Laenen, C. M. Carloni Calame +25

This white paper concerns theoretical and phenomenological aspects relevant to the physics of future colliders, in particular regarding initial-state QED radiation. The co…

hep-ph2021★ 18 cited

Single top production in association with a pair at the LHC in the SMEFT

Hesham El Faham, Fabio Maltoni, Ken Mimasu +1

We study single top quark production in association with a pair at the LHC in the context of the Standard Model (SM) and the Standard Model Effective Field Theory (SMEFT). A s…

hep-ph2021★ 29 cited

One-loop electroweak Sudakov logarithms: a revisitation and automation

Davide Pagani, Marco Zaro

In this work we revisit the algorithm of Denner and Pozzorini for the calculation of one-loop electroweak Sudakov logarithms and we automate it in the MadGraph5_aMC@NLO framework.…