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We present state-of-the art predictions for the production of supersymmetric squarks and gluinos at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), including soft-gluon resummation up to next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic (NNLL) accuracy, the resummation of Coulomb corrections and the contribution from bound states. The NNLL corrections enhance the cross-section predictions and reduce the scale uncertainty to a level of 5-10%. The NNLL resummed cross-section predictions can be obtained from the computer code NNLL-fast, which also provides the scale uncertainty and the pdf and α s error.
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Beenakker, W., Borschensky, C., Krämer, M. et al. NNLL-fast: predictions for coloured supersymmetric particle production at the LHC with threshold and Coulomb resummation. J. High Energ. Phys. 2016, 133 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP12(2016)133
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