Speaker
Prof.
Nikolaos Kidonakis
(Kennesaw State University)
Description
We present theoretical results for the associated production of a single top quark and a $Z$ boson ($tqZ$ production) at LHC energies. We calculate higher-order corrections from soft-gluon emission for this process. We compute the approximate NNLO (aNNLO) cross section at LHC energies, including uncertainties from scale dependence and from parton distributions. We also calculate the top-quark rapidity distribution. The aNNLO corrections are significant and enhance the NLO cross section, and their inclusion provides a more precise theoretical prediction.
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Primary author
Prof.
Nikolaos Kidonakis
(Kennesaw State University)
Co-author
Dr
Nodoka Yamanaka
(Nagoya University)
