Two-loop amplitude for the associated production of a top-anti-top pair and a W boson at hadron colliders (17'+3')

5 May 2026, 11:40
20m
Sala SATURNO B, First Floor (Hotel Carlton)

Sala SATURNO B, First Floor

Hotel Carlton

Talk WG3 Electroweak Physics, top, Higgs and Beyond the Standard Model WG3 Electro-weak physics/higgs/top and BSM

Speaker

Mattia Pozzoli (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

Description

In this talk I will present the first exact calculation of the leading-colour two-loop QCD amplitude for the associated production of a top-anti-top pair and a W boson. I will discuss strategies to address the complexity of the computation, which involves complicated analytic structures, such as nested square roots, elliptic functions, and expressions with a high degree of algebraic complexity. The final result is expressed in terms of a set of special functions, which are evaluated using the method of differential equations, and rational coefficients, evaluated via finite field techniques.

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Author

Mattia Pozzoli (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

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