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[en] In this thesis we investigate the phenomenology of supersymmetric particles at hadron colliders beyond next-to-leading order (NLO) in perturbation theory. We discuss the foundations of Soft-Collinear Effective Theory (SCET) and, in particular, we explicitly construct the SCET Lagrangian for QCD. As an example, we discuss factorization and resummation for the Drell-Yan process in SCET. We use techniques from SCET to improve existing calculations of the production cross sections for slepton-pair production and top-squark-pair production at hadron colliders. As a first application, we implement soft-gluon resummation at next-to-next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic order (NNNLL) for slepton-pair production in the minimal supersymmetric extension of the Standard Model (MSSM). This approach resums large logarithmic corrections arising from the dynamical enhancement of the partonic threshold region caused by steeply falling parton luminosities. We evaluate the resummed invariant-mass distribution and total cross section for slepton-pair production at the Tevatron and LHC and we match these results, in the threshold region, onto NLO fixed-order calculations. As a second application we present the most precise predictions available for top-squark-pair production total cross sections at the LHC. These results are based on approximate NNLO formulas in fixed-order perturbation theory, which completely determine the coefficients multiplying the singular plus distributions. The analysis of the threshold region is carried out in pair invariant mass (PIM) kinematics and in single-particle inclusive (1PI) kinematics. We then match our results in the threshold region onto the exact fixed-order NLO results and perform a detailed numerical analysis of the total cross section.
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4 Feb 2013; 160 p; Diss. (Dr.rer.nat.)
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CORRECTIONS, DIFFERENTIAL CROSS SECTIONS, DRELL MODEL, EFFECTIVE MASS, FACTORIZATION, INCLUSIVE INTERACTIONS, INTEGRAL CROSS SECTIONS, LAGRANGIAN FIELD THEORY, MASS SPECTRA, PAIR PRODUCTION, PERTURBATION THEORY, PROTON-ANTIPROTON INTERACTIONS, PROTON-PROTON INTERACTIONS, QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS, SPARTICLES, STANDARD MODEL, SUPERSYMMETRY, TEV RANGE 01-10, TEV RANGE 10-100
BARYON-BARYON INTERACTIONS, CROSS SECTIONS, ELEMENTARY PARTICLES, ENERGY RANGE, FIELD THEORIES, GRAND UNIFIED THEORY, HADRON-HADRON INTERACTIONS, INTERACTIONS, MASS, MATHEMATICAL MODELS, NUCLEON-ANTINUCLEON INTERACTIONS, NUCLEON-NUCLEON INTERACTIONS, PARTICLE INTERACTIONS, PARTICLE MODELS, PARTICLE PRODUCTION, POSTULATED PARTICLES, PROTON-NUCLEON INTERACTIONS, QUANTUM FIELD THEORY, SPECTRA, SYMMETRY, TEV RANGE, UNIFIED GAUGE MODELS
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