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Renormalization group improved predictions for production at hadron colliders
We study the factorization and resummation of the production
at hadron colliders. The cross section in the threshold limit can be factorized
into a convolution of hard and soft functions and parton distribution functions
with the soft-collinear effective theory. We calculate the next-to-leading
order soft function for the associated production of the heavy quark pair and
colorless particle, and we perform the resummation calculation with the
next-to-next-to-leading logarithms accuracy. Our results show that the
resummation effects reduce the dependence of the cross section on the scales
significantly and increase the total cross section by compared with
NLO QCD results.Comment: 23 pages, 7 figures and 2 tables; final version in PR
Signature of the +jet and dijet production mediated by an excited quark with QCD next-to-leading order accuracy at the LHC
We present a detailed study of the production and decay of the excited quark
at the QCD next-to-leading order (NLO) level at the Large Hadron Collider,
using the narrow width approximation and helicity amplitudes method. We find
that the QCD NLO corrections can tighten the constraints on the model
parameters and reduce the scale dependencies of the total cross sections. We
discuss the signals of the excited quark production with decay mode
and , and present several
important kinematic distributions. Moreover, we give the upper limits of the
excited quark excluded mass range and the allowed parameter space for the
coupling constants and the excited quark mass.Comment: 20 pages, 13 figures; version published in PR
Threshold resummation for the production of a color sextet (antitriplet) scalar at the LHC
We investigate threshold resummation effects in the production of a color
sextet (antitriplet) scalar at next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic (NNLL) order
at the LHC in the frame of soft-collinear effective theory. We show the total
cross section and the rapidity distribution with NLO+NNLL accuracy, and we
compare them with the NLO results. Besides, we use recent dijet data at the LHC
to give the constraints on the couplings between the colored scalars and
quarks.Comment: 21 pages,9 figures,3 tables; Version published in EPJ
Market structure and the value of overselling under stochastic demands
In the operations management literature, traditional revenue management focused on pricing and capacity allocation strategies in a two-period model with stochastic demand. Inspired by travel and lodging industries, we examine a two-period model in which each seller may also adopt the overselling strategy to customers whose valuations are differentiated by timing of arrivals. Widely seen as a popular hedge against consumers’ skipping reservations, we extend the stylized approaches of Biyalogorsky, Carmon, Fruchter, and Gerstner (1999) and Lim (2009) to understand the value of overselling under various market structures. We find that contrary to existing literature, the impact of period-two pricing competition from overselling spills over to period-one such that overselling may not always be a (weakly) dominant strategy once unlimited early demand ceases to hold in a duopoly regime. We provide some numerical studies on the existence of multiple equilibria at the capacity allocation level which actually lead to different selling strategies at the equilibrium despite identical market conditions and firm characteristics
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