TY  - JOUR
A1  - Denner, Ansgar
A1  - Lang, Jean-Nicolas
A1  - Pellen, Mathieu
A1  - Uccirati, Sandro
T1  - Higgs production in association with off-shell top-antitop pairs at NLO EW and QCD at the LHC
JF  - Journal of High Energy Physics
N2  - We present NLO electroweak corrections to Higgs production in association with off-shell top-antitop quark pairs. The full process pp → e +νeµ −ν¯µbb¯H is considered, and hence all interference, off-shell, and non-resonant contributions are taken into account.
The electroweak corrections turn out to be below one per cent for the integrated cross section but can exceed 10% in certain phase-space regions. In addition to its phenomenological relevance, the computation constitutes a major technical achievement as the full NLO virtual corrections involving up to 9-point functions have been computed exactly. The results of the full computation are supported by two calculations in the double-pole approximation. These also allow to infer the effect of off-shell contributions and emphasise their importance especially for the run II of the LHC. Finally, we present combined predictions featuring both NLO electroweak and QCD corrections in a common set-up that will help the experimental collaborations in their quest of precisely measuring the aforementioned process.
KW  - high energy physics
KW  - NLO computations
Y1  - 2017
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-171871
IS  - 2
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Biedermann, Benedikt
A1  - Denner, Ansgar
A1  - Pellen, Mathieu
T1  - Complete NLO corrections to W\(^{+}\)W\(^{+}\) scattering and its irreducible background at the LHC
JF  - Journal of High Energy Physics
N2  - The process pp → μ\(^{+}\)ν\(_{μ}\)e\(^{+}\)ν\(_{e}\)jj receives several contributions of different orders in the strong and electroweak coupling constants. Using appropriate event selections, this process is dominated by vector-boson scattering (VBS) and has recently been measured at the LHC. It is thus of prime importance to estimate precisely each contribution. In this article we compute for the first time the full NLO QCD and electroweak corrections to VBS and its irreducible background processes with realistic experimental cuts. We do not rely on approximations but use complete amplitudes involving two different orders at tree level and three different orders at one-loop level. Since we take into account all interferences, at NLO level the corrections to the VBS process and to the QCD-induced irreducible background process contribute at the same orders. Hence the two processes cannot be unambiguously distinguished, and all contributions to the μ\(^{+}\)ν\(_{μ}\)e\(^{+}\)ν\(_{e}\)jj final state should be preferably measured together.
KW  - NLO computations
KW  - vector-boson scattering
KW  - Large Hadron Collider
Y1  - 2017
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-170157
VL  - 10
IS  - 124
ER  -