Heavy Flavor Production in DGLAP improved Saturation Model

The saturation model with DGLAP evolution is shown to give good description of the production of the charm and beauty quarks in deep inelastic scattering. The modifications of saturation properties caused by the presence of heavy quarks are also discussed.Comment: 4 pages, 3 figures; Talk presented at the International Workshop on Deep-Inelastic Scattering and Related Subjects, Munich, Germany, April 16-20, 200

Diffraction at Tevatron and LHC in the Miettinen-Pumplin model

The process of soft diffractive dissociation in hadronic collisions is discussed in the framework of the Miettinen-Pumplin model. A good description of the data in the ISR-Tevatron energy range is found. Predictions for the total, elastic and single diffractive cross sections for the LHC are also presented. The total cross section is expected to be 15% smaller than that given by Donnachie and Landshoff in the model with soft pomeron. The diffractive cross section remains constant in the Tevatron-LHC energy range.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures; Talk presented at the XLV Cracow School of Theoretical Physics, Zakopane, Poland, June 3-12, 200

Total, elastic and diffractive cross sections at LHC in the Miettinen-Pumplin model

Predictions for the total, elastic and single diffractive cross sections calculated for the LHC in the framework of the Miettinen-Pumplin model are presented. The total cross section is expected to be 15% smaller than that determined by Donnachie and Landshoff in the model with soft pomeron. The diffractive cross section is almost constant in the Tevatron-LHC energy range.Comment: 8 pages, 5 figures, revised version to appear in Phys.Lett.

New simpler method of matching NLO corrections with parton shower Monte Carlo

Next steps in development of the KrkNLO method of implementing NLO QCD corrections to hard processes in parton shower Monte Carlo programs are presented. This new method is a simpler alternative to other well-known approaches, such as MC@NLO and POWHEG. The KrkNLO method owns its simplicity to the use of parton distribution functions (PDFs) in a new, so-called Monte Carlo (MC), factorization scheme which was recently fully defined for the first time. Preliminary numerical results for the Higgs-boson production process are also presented.Comment: 8 pages, 5 JPG figures, conference: "Loops and Legs in Quantum Field Theory", 24-29 April 2016, Leipzig, German

Matching NLO QCD with parton shower in Monte Carlo scheme - the KrkNLO method

A new method of including the complete NLO QCD corrections to hard processes in the LO parton-shower Monte Carlo (PSMC) is presented. This method, called KrkNLO, requires the use of parton distribution functions in a dedicated Monte Carlo factorization scheme, which is also discussed in this paper. In the future, it may simplify introduction of the NNLO corrections to hard processes and the NLO corrections to PSMC. Details of the method and numerical examples of its practical implementation, as well as comparisons with other calculations, such as MCFM, MC@NLO, POWHEG, for single $Z/\gamma^*$-boson production at the LHC, are presented.Comment: 50 pages, 14 figures. Version published in JHEP: added a comparison of krkNLO results and the fixed-order NNLO result from the DYNNLO program and addressed several points raised by the refere

Di-boson Production beyond NLO QCD and Anomalous Couplings

In these proceedings, we review results for several di-boson production processes beyond NLO QCD at high transverse momenta using the VBFNLO Monte-Carlo program together with the LOOPSIM method. Additionally, we show for the WZ production process how higher order QCD corrections can resemble anomalous coupling effects.Comment: Conference Proceedings:C15-05-25.

Saturation effects in forward-forward dijet production in p+Pb collisions

We study saturation effects in the production of forward dijets in proton-lead collisions at the Large Hadron Collider, using the framework of High Energy Factorization. Such configurations, with both jets produced in the forward direction, probe the gluon density of the lead nucleus at small longitudinal momentum fraction, and also limit the phase space for emissions of additional jets. We find significant suppression of the forward dijet azimuthal correlations in proton-lead versus proton-proton collisions, which we attribute to stronger saturation of the gluon density in the nucleus than in the proton. In order to minimize model dependence of our predictions, we use two different extensions of the Balitsky-Kovchegov equation for evolution of the gluon density with sub-leading corrections.Comment: 13 pages, 4 figures; v2: added figure 4, several clarifying sentences and a reference; version accepted by PR

Diffractive production at high energies in the Miettinen-Pumplin model

The model of soft diffractive dissociation proposed some time ago by Miettinen and Pumplin is shown to describe correctly the data at FERMILAB energies. The comparison with Goulianos model of renor malized pomeron flux is also presented.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figures, LHC predictions removed, submitted to Phys.Lett.