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In my talk, I will present precision predictions for the production of scalar leptoquarks at the LHC, evaluated at next-to-leading order in QCD and improved by the resummation of soft-gluon radiation at next-to-next-to-leading-logarithmic accuracy. Apart from QCD contributions, included are the lepton $t$-channel exchange diagrams relevant in the light of the recent $B$-flavour anomalies. The results exhibit an interesting interplay between the different contributions, affected considerably by the choice of parton distribution functions, and the net effect on a cross section turns out to be very non-generic for a variety of benchmark scenarios favoured by the anomalies. These predictions consist of the most precise leptoquark cross section calculations available to date and are necessary for the best exploitation of leptoquark LHC searches.
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