Automatized QCD Calculations for new physics at the LHC

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Tilman Plehn
• Subject Area: Nuclear and Elementary Particle Physics, Quantum Mechanics, Relativity, Fields
• Term: from 2009 to 2013
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 153953678

• Final Report Year: 2013

Final Report Abstract

The key task of this project was the development of an automatic tool to compute the next-to-leading order QCD corrections to new physics processes at the LHC. The project worked essentially as planned. Under the name MADGOLEM we developed this tool as part of the event generator MADGRAPH4. In this form it is made available to experimental groups. The next step is to combine it with a parton shower in AMC@NLO.

Publications

• “Automized Squark-Neutralino Production to Next-to-Leading Order,” Phys. Rev. D 84, 075005 (2011)
  T. Binoth, D. Goncalves Netto, D. Lopez-Val, K. Mawatari, T. Plehn and I. Wigmore
  
• “Sgluon Pair Production to Next-to-Leading Order,” Phys. Rev. D 85, 114024 (2012)
  D. Goncalves-Netto, D. Lopez-Val, K. Mawatari, T. Plehn and I. Wigmore
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.85.114024)
• “Automated Squark and Gluino Production to Next-to-Leading Order,” Phys. Rev. D 87, 014002 (2013)
  D. Goncalves-Netto, D. Lopez-Val, K. Mawatari, T. Plehn and I. Wigmore
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.87.014002)
• “Higgs Quantum Numbers in Weak Boson Fusion,” JHEP 1301, 148 (2013)
  C. Englert, D. Goncalves-Netto, K. Mawatari and T. Plehn
  (See online at https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP01(2013)148)
• “Looking for leptogluons,” Phys. Rev. D 87, 094023 (2013)
  D. Goncalves-Netto, D. Lopez-Val, K. Mawatari, I. Wigmore and T. Plehn
  
• “The shape of spins,” Phys. Rev. D 88, 013016 (2013)
  C. Englert, D. Goncalves, G. Nail and M. Spannowsky