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Ellis, R. Keith

Publications and source records attributed to Ellis, R. Keith.

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DOE OSTI2024

Analytic amplitudes for a pair of Higgs bosons in association with three partons

The pair production of Higgs bosons at the LHC can give information about the triple Higgs boson coupling. We perform an analytic one-loop calculation of the amplitudes for a pair of Higgs bosons in association with three partons, retaining the exact dependence on the quark mass circulating in the loop. These amplitudes constitute the real radiation corrections in the calculation of Higgs boson pair production at next-to-leading order in the strong coupling. The results of an analytic generalised-unitarity computation are simplified via analytic reconstruction in spinor variables. Compact ansätze for kinematic pole residues are iteratively fitted via p-adic evaluations near said poles and subtracted until no pole remains. A new ansatz construction is introduced to minimally parametrise coefficients of amplitudes with multiple massive external legs. The simplified expressions are faster to evaluate than automatic codes and can lead to more stable results near singular regions.

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DOE OSTI2023

Top tree amplitudes for higher order calculations

We present compact analytic results for tree-level amplitudes containing a $t\bar{t}$ pair accompanied by up to four massless partons $t\bar{t}gg$, $t\bar{t}ggg$, $t\bar{t}gggg$, $t\bar{t}q\bar{q}$, $t\bar{t}q\bar{q}g$, $t\bar{t}q\bar{q}gg$, and $t\bar{t}q\bar{q}q'\bar{q'}$. The results, obtained using BCFW on-shell recursion, are based both on previous published results and on the new calculations performed in this paper. These amplitudes are sufficient to calculate the production of a $t\bar{t}$ pair and zero, one, or two light parton jets, with the option to include the tree-level decays t → bνe + and $\bar{t} → \bar{b}e^-\bar{v}$ efficiently. Our results are part of the NNLO corrections to $t\bar{t}$ production including the decay correlations for on-shell top quarks.

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DOE OSTI2023

Jet-veto resummation at N 3 LL p + NNLO in boson production processes

Vetoing energetic jet activity is a crucial tool for suppressing backgrounds and enabling new physics searches at the LHC, but the introduction of a veto scale can introduce large logarithms that may need to be resummed. We present an implementation of jet-veto resummation for color-singlet processes at the level of N 3 LL p matched to fixed-order NNLO predictions. Our public code MCFM allows for predictions of a single boson, such as Z/γ*, W ± or H, or with a pair of vector bosons, such as W + W – , W ± Z or ZZ. The implementation relies on recent calculations of the soft and beam functions in the presence of a jet veto over all rapidities, with jets defined using a sequential recombination algorithm with jet radius R. However one of the ingredients that is required to reach full N 3 LL accuracy is only known approximately, hence N 3 LL p . We describe in detail our formalism and compare with previous public codes that operate at the level of NNLL. Our higher-order predictions improve significantly upon NNLL calculations by reducing theoretical uncertainties. We demonstrate this by comparing our predictions with ATLAS and CMS results.

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DOE OSTI2023

Transverse momentum resummation at N$^{3}$LL+NNLO for diboson processes

Diboson processes are one of the most accessible and stringent probes of the electroweak gauge structure of the Standard Model at the LHC. They will be probed at the percent level at the high-luminosity LHC, challenging current theory predictions. We present transverse momentum resummed calculations at N$^{3}$LL+NNLO for the processes ZZ, WZ, WH and ZH, compare our predictions with most recent LHC data and present predictions at 13.6 TeV including theory uncertainty estimates. For W$^{+}$W$^{−}$ production we further present jet-veto resummed results at N$^{3}$LL$_{p}$+NNLO. Our calculations will be made publicly available in the upcoming MCFM release and allow future analyses to take advantage of improved predictions.

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