66 research outputs found
Soft gluon resummation for squark and gluino pair-production at hadron colliders
We report on the study of soft gluon effects in the production of squarks and
gluinos at hadron colliders. Close to production threshold, the emission of
soft gluon results in the appearence of large logarithmic corrections in the
theoretical expressions. In order to resum these corrections at
next-to-leading-logarithmic accuracy appropriate one-loop anomalous dimensions
have to be calculated. We present the calculation of the anomalous dimensions
for all production channels of squarks and gluinos and provide numerical
predictions for the Tevatron and the LHC.Comment: 6 pages, talk given at RADCOR 2009 - 9th International Symposium on
Radiative Corrections (Applications of Quantum Field Theory to Phenomenology)
October 25-30 2009, Ascona, Switzerlan
Radiative corrections to W-boson hadroproduction: higher-order electroweak and supersymmetric effects
The high accuracy envisaged for future measurements of W-boson production at
hadron colliders has to be matched by precise theoretical predictions. We study
the impact of electroweak radiative corrections on W-boson production cross
sections and differential distributions at the Tevatron and at the LHC. In
particular, we include photon-induced processes, which contribute at O(alpha),
and leading radiative corrections beyond O(alpha) in the high-energy Sudakov
regime and from multi-photon final-state radiation. We furthermore present the
calculation of the complete supersymmetric next-to-leading-order electroweak
and QCD corrections to W-boson hadroproduction within the MSSM. The
supersymmetric corrections turn out to be negligible in the vicinity of the W
resonance in general, reaching the percent level only at high lepton transverse
momentum and for specific choices of the supersymmetric parameters.Comment: 30 pages, 10 figures, 2 new sections, including a comparison with
previous results on multi-photon radiation; version published in PR
Implementation of electroweak corrections in the POWHEG BOX: single W production
We present a fully consistent implementation of electroweak and strong
radiative corrections to single W hadroproduction in the POWHEG BOX framework,
treating soft and collinear photon emissions on the same ground as coloured
parton emissions. This framework can be easily extended to more complex
electroweak processes. We describe how next-to-leading order (NLO) electroweak
corrections are combined with the NLO QCD calculation, and show how they are
interfaced to QCD and QED shower Monte Carlo. The resulting tool fills a gap in
the literature and allows to study comprehensively the interplay of QCD and
electroweak effects to W production using a single computational framework.
Numerical comparisons with the predictions of the electroweak generator HORACE,
as well as with existing results on the combination of electroweak and QCD
corrections to W production, are shown for the LHC energies, to validate the
reliability and accuracy of the approachComment: 31 pages, 7 figures. Minor corrections, references added and updated.
Final version to appear in JHE
Supersymmetric top and bottom squark production at hadron colliders
The scalar partners of top and bottom quarks are expected to be the lightest
squarks in supersymmetric theories, with potentially large cross sections at
hadron colliders. We present predictions for the production of top and bottom
squarks at the Tevatron and the LHC, including next-to-leading order
corrections in supersymmetric QCD and the resummation of soft gluon emission at
next-to-leading-logarithmic accuracy. We discuss the impact of the higher-order
corrections on total cross sections and transverse-momentum distributions, and
provide an estimate of the theoretical uncertainty due to scale variation and
the parton distribution functions.Comment: 29 pages, 6 figure
Habitat use by Siberian warbler species at a stopover site in Far Eastern Russia
Knowledge of the routes and habitat use of Siberian songbird species during migration is very limited. The goal of our study was to describe the autumnal habitat use of seven Siberian warbler species in the genera Phylloscopus, Acrocephalus, Iduna and Locustella in Far Eastern Russia. A total of 2283 individuals were trapped in mist nets placed within different habitat types between 2012 and 2014 as part of the Amur Bird Project at Muraviovka Park in Far Eastern Russia. We studied the effect of habitat type and vegetation height on the occurrence of each species, and compared our results to published information on habitat use on the breeding grounds. Our results demonstrate that most species exhibit species-specific preferences for habitat type, and that these stopover habitats were similar to habitats used on the breeding grounds. © 2018 British Trust for Ornitholog
Combination of electroweak and QCD corrections to single W production at the Fermilab Tevatron and the CERN LHC
Precision studies of the production of a high-transverse momentum lepton in
association with missing energy at hadron colliders require that electroweak
and QCD higher-order contributions are simultaneously taken into account in
theoretical predictions and data analysis. Here we present a detailed
phenomenological study of the impact of electroweak and strong contributions,
as well as of their combination, to all the observables relevant for the
various facets of the p\smartpap \to {\rm lepton} + X physics programme at
hadron colliders, including luminosity monitoring and Parton Distribution
Functions constraint, precision physics and search for new physics signals.
We provide a theoretical recipe to carefully combine electroweak and strong
corrections, that are mandatory in view of the challenging experimental
accuracy already reached at the Fermilab Tevatron and aimed at the CERN LHC,
and discuss the uncertainty inherent the combination. We conclude that the
theoretical accuracy of our calculation can be conservatively estimated to be
about 2% for standard event selections at the Tevatron and the LHC, and about
5% in the very high transverse mass/lepton transverse momentum tails. We
also provide arguments for a more aggressive error estimate (about 1% and 3%,
respectively) and conclude that in order to attain a one per cent accuracy: 1)
exact mixed corrections should be computed in
addition to the already available NNLO QCD contributions and two-loop
electroweak Sudakov logarithms; 2) QCD and electroweak corrections should be
coherently included into a single event generator.Comment: One reference added. Final version to appear in JHE
SUSY QCD corrections to electroweak gauge boson production with an associated jet at the LHC
We study the stability of the neutral- and charged-current Drell-Yan process
in association with a jet as a standard candle at the LHC under the inclusion
of O(alpha_s) supersymmetric QCD (SQCD) corrections within the MSSM. We include
the decay of the electroweak gauge boson into dileptons, i.e. we consider the
production of charged lepton--anti-lepton or lepton-neutrino final states with
one hard jet. We find that the SQCD corrections are negligible for the
integrated cross section. Only at high lepton transverse momentum can they
induce effects of the percent level.Comment: 21 pages, 9 figures, 2 table
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