We present a leading colour computation of the double virtual contributions to top-quark pair production in association with a jet at a hadron collider at next-to-next-to-leading order in QCD. The finite remainders of the two-loop amplitudes, after subtraction of infrared and ultraviolet divergences, are extracted analytically from evaluations over finite fields by using a (potentially) overcomplete basis of special functions defined through their differential equations. We construct the colour- and spin-summed interference with the tree-level amplitudes and present a C++ library suitable for immediate use in phenomenological studies. We present new techniques for the evaluation of the special functions through direct numerical integration of differential equations which perform well across the full physical phase space.

Double virtual QCD corrections to $t\bar{t}+$jet production at the LHC

Simon Badger;Matteo Becchetti;Colomba Brancaccio;Simone Zoia
2026-01-01

Abstract

We present a leading colour computation of the double virtual contributions to top-quark pair production in association with a jet at a hadron collider at next-to-next-to-leading order in QCD. The finite remainders of the two-loop amplitudes, after subtraction of infrared and ultraviolet divergences, are extracted analytically from evaluations over finite fields by using a (potentially) overcomplete basis of special functions defined through their differential equations. We construct the colour- and spin-summed interference with the tree-level amplitudes and present a C++ library suitable for immediate use in phenomenological studies. We present new techniques for the evaluation of the special functions through direct numerical integration of differential equations which perform well across the full physical phase space.
2026
2026
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http://arxiv.org/abs/2511.11424v2
Higher-Order Perturbative Calculations; Scattering Amplitudes; Top Quark; High Energy Physics - Phenomenology; High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Simon Badger; Matteo Becchetti; Colomba Brancaccio; Michał Czakon; Heribertus Bayu Hartanto; Rene Poncelet; Simone Zoia
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