Background: Due to lack of knowledge about seasonal influenza vaccine effectiveness (SIVE) against laboratory-confirmed influenza in patients aged ≥65 years a study to measure SIVE in patients admitted to hospital due to severe acute respiratory infection (SARI) in Lithuania during the 2015-2018 was conducted.Materials/methods: A test-negative case-control study was performed between 2015-2016 and

The associated production of a Higgs boson and a top-quark pair, tt¯H, in proton-proton collisions is addressed in this paper for a center of mass energy of 13 TeV at the LHC. Dileptonic final states of tt¯H events with two oppositely charged leptons and four jets from the decays t→bW+→b+ν, t¯→b¯W-→b¯-ν¯ and h→bb¯, are used. Signal events, generated with MadGraph5-aMC@NLO, are fully reconstructed

We present an interface between the multipurpose Monte Carlo tool MadGraph5_aMC@NLO and the automated amplitude generator GoSam. As a first application of this novel framework, we compute the NLO corrections to (Formula presented.) (Formula presented.) and (Formula presented.) (Formula presented.) matched to a parton shower. In the phenomenological analyses of these processes, we focus our attenti

Abstract: We consider improving Powheg+Minlo simulations, so as to also render them NLO accurate in the description of observables receiving contributions from events with lower parton multiplicity than present in their underlying NLO calculation. On a conceptual level we follow the strategy of the so-called Minlo′programs. Whereas the existing Minlo′framework requires explicit analytic input from

We study the production of a Standard Model Higgs boson in the gluon-fusion channel at the 13 TeV LHC. Our results are accurate to the next-to-leading order in QCD, bar for the lack of some two-loop amplitudes, for up to two extra jets and are matched to the Pythia8 Monte Carlo. We address the impact, at the level of inclusive rates and of differential distributions, of the merging of samples char

Global dementia rates will more than triple by 2050, thus challengingsociety. Due to ageing in place policies, informal caregiving is increasing asmore people with dementia continue living at home despite significant careneeds. While most caregivers are willing to act as such, they are notalways adequately supported, thus reporting a high burden, worse mentaland physical health. Innovative Assisti

We consider the impact of the tt spin correlations in the Higgs boson production in association with top quark pairs pp→ttH and in the corresponding backgrounds. We study the H→bb and H→γγ decay modes. We show that retaining the tt spin-correlation effects could significantly improve the LHC sensitivity to the ttH signal, particularly in the H→γγ channel.

We present predictions for the total cross section for the production of a charged Higgs boson in the intermediate-mass range (mH± ∼mt) at the LHC, focusing on a type-II two-Higgs-doublet model. Results are obtained at next-to-leading order (NLO) accuracy in QCD perturbation theory, by studying the full process pp→H±W∓bb¯ in the complex-(top)-mass scheme with massive bottom quarks. Compared to low

In this talk an interface is presented between the multi-purpose next-to-leading-order Monte Carlo tool MADGRAPH5-AMC@NLO and the automated one-loop amplitude generator GOSAM. As a phenomenological application of this work, the interface is used to make predictions for the ttH and ttgg processes at the 13 TeV LHC. The differences between these two processes is studied, focussing in particular on o

During the last years, the improvement in predictions for LHC processes has been enormous. In this talk the following two topics are covered. First, using the FxFx merging prescription, the prediction and data comparison for a vector boson in association with multiple jets are considered at NLO accuracy. Second, we show some results for the newly developed extension of the MINLO method that allows

We study the production of jets in hadronic collisions, by computing all contributions proportional to α S n α m , with n + m = 2 and n + m = 3. These correspond to leading and next-to-leading order results, respectively, for single-inclusive and dijet observables in a perturbative expansion that includes both QCD and electroweak effects. We discuss issues relevant to the definition of hadronic j

The determination of the CP nature of the Higgs coupling to top quarks is addressed in this paper, using tt-h events produced in s=13 TeV proton-proton collisions at the LHC. Dileptonic final states are employed, with two oppositely charged leptons and four jets, corresponding to the decays t→bW+→b+ν, t-→b-W-→b--ν-, and h→bb-. Pure scalar (h=H), pure pseudoscalar (h=A), and CP-violating Higgs boso

In this paper, the recent progress in improving the Minlo procedure for generating inclusive event samples that are (N)NLO accurate in various jet multiplicities is discussed. As a proof of principle, a selection of the predictions for Higgs boson production in association with up to two jets is shown. The predictions are simultaneously accurate at NNLO for observables inclusive in H production, N

We calculate the complete-NLO predictions for tt¯ W± and tt¯ tt¯ production in proton-proton collisions at 13 and 100 TeV. All the non-vanishing contributions of O(αsiαj) with i + j = 3, 4 for tt¯ W± and i + j = 4, 5 for tt¯ tt¯ are evaluated without any approximation. For tt¯ W± we find that, due to the presence of tW → tW scattering, at 13(100) TeV the O(αsα3) contribution is about 12(70)% of th

Vector-boson scattering processes are of great importance for the current run-II and future runs of the Large Hadron Collider. The presence of triple and quartic gauge couplings in the process gives access to the gauge sector of the Standard Model (SM) and possible new-physics contributions there. To test any new-physics hypothesis, sound knowledge of the SM contributions is necessary, with a prec

We present the key features relevant to the automated computation of all the leading- and next-to-leading order contributions to short-distance cross sections in a mixed-coupling expansion, with special emphasis on the first subleading NLO term in the QCD+EW scenario, commonly referred to as NLO EW corrections. We discuss, in particular, the FKS subtraction in the context of a mixed-coupling expan

We present a next-to-leading order accurate simulation of t-channel single-top plus jet production matched to parton showers via the Powheg method. The calculation underlying the simulation is enhanced with a process-specific implementation of the multi-scale improved NLO (Minlo) method, such that it gives physical predictions all through phase space, including regions where the jet additional to

In this talk some of the recent developments within the MadGraph/MadEvent framework are presented.