THEP Journal Club

May 23, 2014 at 12:30 p.m. in Sozialraum der WA THEP

Riccardo Bartocci
Institut für Physik, THEP
rbartocc@uni-mainz.de

Prisco Lo Chiatto
Institut für Physik, THEP
plochiat@uni-mainz.de

Nicklas Ramberg
Institut für Physik, THEP
nramberg@uni-mainz.de

Miroslava Mosso Rojas
Institut für Physik, THEP
mmossoro@uni-mainz.de

Pizza & Physics at Lunchtime

ZZ production at NNLO
Andreas von Manteuffel (MITP, PRISMA)


In this talk, I will discuss the recent NNLO prediction for the total Z pair production cross section at the LHC. A key element entering the calculation is the analytical result for the two-loop corrections.
Starting from a pedagogical example, I will describe how the masterintegrals were obtained in terms of multiple polylogarithms using modern methods.