Speaker
Daniel Wiegand
(University of Pittsburgh)
Description
We present the NLO QCD corrections to the pair production of heavy
vector color octets in Proton-Proton collisions, as they appear in various
new physics models like Universal Extra Dimensions. To this end we construct
a two-sided Coloron model exhibiting all relevant features while retaining renormalizability without sensitivity to the unknown UV completion of the models. In this framework, we compute the full order $\alpha_s$ corrections to the parton level cross section.
We describe the technical implementation of the calculation in some detail, with some focus on the treatment of IR divergencies.
Author
Daniel Wiegand
(University of Pittsburgh)
