Higher-order soft and Coulomb corrections to squark and gluino production at the LHC

Abstract

We present predictions for the total cross sections for pair production of squarks and gluinos at the LHC including a combined NNLL resummation of soft and Coulomb gluon effects. The NNLL corrections can be up to 25% relative to previous NLL results and reduce the theoretical uncertainties to the 10% level.

Comments: 8 pages, PoS class included. Contribution to the Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Radiative Corrections (Applications of Quantum Field Theory to Phenomenology) (RADCOR 2013), 22-27 September 2013, Lumley Castle Hotel, Durham, UK