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Lukas Simon

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Automated NRQCD and NRQED simulations of quarkonium and leptonium production with P-wave states and physical-mass effects

We present the $\texttt{MadSONS}$ module, which extends the $\texttt{MadGraph5_aMC@NLO}$ framework by providing a fully automated solution for the simulation of arbitrary tree-level production processes involving non-relativistic bound states. More specifically, we focus on the production of quarkonia and leptonia in non-relativistic QCD and QED, respectively. This work constitutes the next step in the programme initiated in arXiv:2510.26773, where the colour and spin projectors required for S-wave states were first incorporated into $\texttt{MadGraph5_aMC@NLO}$. In the present development, we implement the remaining projectors associated with orbital and total angular momentum, thereby enabling the event generation of processes involving P-wave states. The derivatives required for the orbital-angular-momentum projection are evaluated using dual numbers. In addition, we implement a momentum-reshuffling procedure that accounts for physical bound-state mass effects in the phase space. The resulting framework applies to a wide range of collider environments while remaining compatible with standard multi-purpose Monte Carlo event generators for parton showering and hadronisation. As a first phenomenological application, we revisit $J/\psi + \psi(2{\rm S})$ production at the LHC and obtain an improved description of the LHCb data.

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Soft Contributions Stabilize NNLO QCD Corrections to Quarkonium Production and Decay

Next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) QCD corrections to quarkonium production and decay are known to exhibit perturbative instabilities within non-relativistic QCD. We identify the origin of this problem and propose a simple remedy. Applying our approach to $S$-wave color-singlet quarkonium processes, we achieve substantially improved perturbative convergence and agreement with experimental data.

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$\texttt{history}$: A tool for fully-differential cross sections at next-to-next-to-leading order

The software $\texttt{history}$ is designed to calculate fully-differential cross sections for colour-singlet production processes in hadronic collision up to next-to-next-to-leading order in QCD. It is based on the fully-local nested soft-collinear subtraction scheme, whose implementation is entirely process independent. This allows the program to be readily applied to arbitrary colour-singlet production processes, provided the corresponding process-dependent matrix elements are supplied. In the current release, we include matrix elements for Higgs production via gluon fusion, $pp\to H+X$, and for associated Higgs production with a heavy electroweak vector boson through the Drell-Yan-like Higgs-Strahlung mechanism, $pp\to V^\ast +X \to VH+X$, with $V\in\{W,Z\}$.

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$\texttt{history}$ in the making: A tool for NNLO cross sections

In these proceedings, we report on our progress in developing the $\texttt{history}$ framework, which aims to implement the fully-local Nested Soft-Collinear infrared subtraction scheme for the automated phase-space integration of color-singlet production processes in hadronic collisions at NNLO accuracy. We validate our implementation for quark-antiquark-initiated processes and demonstrate a first application of the tool by predicting a novel observable for the inclusive process $pp \to ZH+X$, which may offer sensitivity to potential effects of new physics.

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Automated event generation for S-wave quarkonium and leptonium production in NRQCD and NRQED

We present an extension of the MadGraph5_aMC@NLO framework that enables the automated calculation of leading-order cross sections for S-wave quarkonium and leptonium production within the non-relativistic QCD (NRQCD) and non-relativistic QED (NRQED) factorisation formalisms. The framework has been validated against a variety of benchmark processes, demonstrating robustness and flexibility for phenomenological studies. A key advantage of this implementation is its seamless integration with existing MadGraph5_aMC@NLO features, allowing computations not only within the Standard Model but also in a wide range of Beyond the Standard Model or Effective Field Theory scenarios via a modified Universal Feynman Output (UFO) interface. Furthermore, the framework maintains compatibility with standard Monte Carlo event generators for parton showering and hadronisation. Through numerous examples, we highlight that theoretical studies of quarkonium processes require careful consideration: the impact of subleading contributions is often difficult to predict using simple counting arguments based solely on the hierarchy of couplings and velocity-scaling rules.

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Progress in NLO Calculations for gamma-gamma Physics

With the advent of precision measurements of photon-fusion processes in ultraperipheral collisions (UPCs) at facilities, such as RHIC and the LHC, the inclusion of higher-order corrections has become essential. While automated frameworks already make NLO corrections feasible for parton-parton scattering processes, no comparable tools had previously been available for UPC processes in two-photon collisions. In these proceedings, we review some recent explicit NLO computations and present the updated gamma-UPC+MadGraph5_aMC@NLO framework, the first automated software that enables NLO-accurate predictions for photon-photon processes in UPCs.

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Automated next-to-leading order QCD and electroweak predictions of photon-photon processes in ultraperipheral collisions

We present automated next-to-leading order QCD and/or electroweak (EW) predictions for photon-photon processes in ultraperipheral high-energy collisions of protons and ions, extending the capabilities of the MadGraph5_aMC@NLO framework together in combination with the gamma-UPC code. Key aspects of this extension are discussed. We compute QCD and/or EW quantum corrections for several phenomenologically interesting processes at LHC and FCC-hh energies.

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FKS subtraction for quarkonium production at NLO

We extend the local infrared-divergence subtraction formalism, originally proposed by Frixione, Kunszt and Signer (FKS), to calculate short-distance (differential) cross section for any inclusive process involving a quarkonium particle in non-relativistic QCD (NRQCD) factorisation at next-to-leading order (NLO) accuracy in the strong coupling constant $\alpha_s$. The new formulas are generally applicable to the production of an S- or P-wave quarkonium state in association with any number of elementary particles. The main new ingredients derived in this paper are the local and integrated soft counterterms for the colour-singlet and colour-octet P-wave bound states. It, therefore, paves the way to the automation of the NLO calculations for heavy quarkonium inclusive and associated production processes.

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vh@nnlo-v2: New physics in Higgs Strahlung

Introducing version 2 of the code vh@nnlo, we study the effects of a number of new-physics scenarios on the Higgs-Strahlung process. In particular, the cross section is evaluated within a general 2HDM and the MSSM. While the Drell-Yan-like contributions are consistently taken into account by a simple rescaling of the SM result, the gluon-initiated contribution is supplemented by squark-loop mediated amplitudes, and by the $s$-channel exchange of additional scalars which may lead to conspicuous interference effects. The latter holds as well for bottom-quark initiated Higgs Strahlung, which is also included in the new version of vh@nnlo. Using an orthogonal rotation of the three Higgs CP eigenstates in the 2HDM and the MSSM, vh@nnlo incorporates a simple means of CP mixing in these models. Moreover, the effect of vector-like quarks in the SM on the gluon-initiated contribution can be studied. Beyond concrete models, vh@nnlo allows to include the effect of higher-dimensional operators on the production of CP-even Higgs bosons. Transverse momentum distributions of the final state Higgs boson and invariant mass distributions of the $Vϕ$ final state for the gluon- and bottom-quark initiated contributions can be studied. Distributions for the Drell-Yan-like component of Higgs-Strahlung can be included through a link to MCFM. vh@nnlo can also be linked to FeynHiggs and 2HDMC for the calculation of Higgs masses and mixing angles. It can also read these parameters from an SLHA-file as produced by standard spectrum generators. Throughout the manuscript, we highlight new-physics effects in various numerical examples, both at the inclusive level and for distributions.

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