Conveners
QCD
- Thomas Cridge (DESY)
QCD
- Thomas Cridge (DESY)
We determine the value of the strong coupling α_s and study its running over a wide range of scales as probed by the dijet production process at hadron colliders. The analysis is performed using the complete next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) predictions in perturbative QCD and is based on dijet data published by ATLAS and CMS at center-of-mass energies of 7, 8, and 13 TeV. From a large...
We consider two-loop QCD corrections in the leading color approximation for the production of a heavy electroweak vector boson, $V = \{W^{\pm}, Z,\gamma^\star\}$, in association with two light jets ($Vjj$) at hadron colliders. Leptonic decays of the electroweak boson are included at the amplitude level. We develop an approach that allows us to derive an analytic representation three orders of...
Non-perturbative effects present an important contribution to precise measurements of SM parameters. They are typically studied using Monte Carlo event generators that complement fixed-order predictions with non-perturbative models. These models are of empirical nature and need to be tuned to experimental measurements in order to provide accurate predictions. Once tuned, they are typically...