Research Focus
- Theoretical particle physics
CV
Academic Education
- PhD in Theoretical Particle Physics, University of Durham, UK
- MSc in Theoretical Physics, University of Warsaw, Poland
- Computational Physics, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland
Positions
- Professor, University of Münster
- Junior Professor, University of Münster
- Helmholtz Alliance Fellow, RWTH Aachen
- DESY Theory Fellow, DESY Hamburg
- Postdoctoral fellow, University of Karlsruhe
- Research Associate, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA
External Functions
- "Event Generators and Resummation" workshop series, member of the organizing committee
- Helmholtz Alliance "Physics at the Terascale", member of the Analysis Project Board
Publications
- Beekveld van Melissa , Kulesza Anna , Lupattelli Michele , Saracco Tommaso. . “Invariant-mass threshold resummation for the production of four top quarks at the LHC.” Journal of High Energy Physics 10: 209. doi: 10.1007/JHEP10(2025)209.
- Bonocore, Domenico, Kulesza, Anna, and Pirsch, Johannes. . “Higher-Spin Effects in Black Hole and Neutron Star Binary Dynamics: Worldline Supersymmetry beyond Minimal Coupling.” Physical Review Letters 2025. doi: 10.1103/58z2-rypz.
- Bonocore, D., Kulesza, A., and Pirsch, J. . “Generalized Wilson lines and the gravitational scattering of spinning bodies.” Journal of High Energy Physics 2025. doi: 10.1007/JHEP05(2025)034.
- Balsach, R., Bonocore, D., and Kulesza, A. . “Soft-photon spectra and the Low-Burnett-Kroll theorem.” Physical Review D (PRD) 110 (1). doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.110.016029.
- Borschensky, C., Frisenna, F., Kotlarski, W., Kulesza, A., and Stöckinger, D. . “Squark production with R-symmetry beyond NLO at the LHC.” Journal of High Energy Physics 2024 (5). doi: 10.1007/JHEP05(2024)151.
- Balsach, R., Kulesza, A., and Bonocore, D. . “THE EMISSION OF SOFT-PHOTONS AND THE LBK THEOREM, REVISITED.” Acta Physica Polonica B, Proceedings Supplement 17 (2). doi: 10.5506/APhysPolBSupp.17.2-A8.
- Beenakker, W, Borschensky, C, Krämer, M, Kulesza, A, Laenen, E, Mamu?i?, J, and Valero, L. . “NNLL-fast 2.0: Coloured sparticle production at the LHC run 3 withpS = 13.6 TeV.” SciPost Physics Core 7. doi: 10.21468/SciPostPhysCore.7.4.072.
- Beenakker, W., Borschensky, C., Krämer, M., Kulesza, A., Laenen, E., Mamužić, J., and Valero, L.M. . “NNLL-fast 2.0: Coloured sparticle production at the LHC run 3 withpS = 13.6 TeV.” SciPost Physics Core 7 (4). doi: 10.21468/SciPostPhysCore.7.4.072.
- van Beekveld, M., Kulesza, A., and Valero, L.M. . “Soft gluon resummation for the production of four top quarks at the LHC.” contribution to the 11th Annual Conference on Large Hadron Collider Physics, LHCP 2023, Belgrade Sissa Medialab Srl.
- van Beekveld, M, Kulesza, A, and Moreno Valero, L. . “Threshold Resummation for the Production of Four Top Quarks at the LHC.” Physical Review Letters 131 (21). doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.211901.
- Kulesza, A., Moreno, Valero L., and Theeuwes, V. . “On soft gluon resummation for associated single top production with a Higgs boson at the LHC.” European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields 138 (2). doi: 10.1140/epjp/s13360-023-03773-0.
- van Beekveld, M., Kulesza, A., and Valero, L.M. . “Absolute-mass threshold resummation for the production of four top quarks.” contribution to the 41st International Conference on High Energy Physics, ICHEP 2022, Bologna Sissa Medialab Srl.
- Bonocore, D., Kulesza, A., and Pirsch, J. . “A Wilson line approach to classical and quantum effects in gravitational scattering.” contribution to the 41st International Conference on High Energy Physics, ICHEP 2022, Bologna Sissa Medialab Srl. doi: 10.22323/1.414.0429.
- Bonocore, D., and Kulesza, A. . “Next-to-leading power corrections for soft photon bremsstrahlung.” contribution to the 41st International Conference on High Energy Physics, ICHEP 2022, Bologna Sissa Medialab Srl. doi: 10.22323/1.414.1128.
- Bonocore, D., Kulesza, A., and Pirsch, J. . “Classical and quantum gravitational scattering with Generalized Wilson Lines.” Journal of High Energy Physics 2022 (3). doi: 10.1007/JHEP03(2022)147.
- Borschensky, C., Fuks, B., Kulesza, A., and Schwartländer, D. . “Scalar leptoquark pair production at the LHC: precision predictions in the era of flavour anomalies.” Journal of High Energy Physics 2022 (2). doi: 10.1007/JHEP02(2022)157.
- Bonocore, D., and Kulesza, A. . “Soft photon bremsstrahlung at next-to-leading power.” Physics Letters B 833. doi: 10.1016/j.physletb.2022.137325.
- Borschensky, C., Fuks, B., Jueid, A., and Kulesza, A. . “Scalar leptoquarks at the LHC and flavour anomalies: a comparison of pair-production modes at NLO-QCD.” Journal of High Energy Physics 2022 (11). doi: 10.1007/JHEP11(2022)006.
- van Beekveld, Melissa; Kulesza, Anna; Moreno Valero, Laura;. . “Absolute-mass threshold resummation for the production of four top quarks.” Preprint. contribution to the 41st International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP 2022), Bologna doi: 10.22323/1.414.0881.
- Kulesza, A, Moreno Valero, L, and Theeuwes, V. . “On soft gluon resummation for associated single top production with a Higgs boson at the LHC.” European Physical Journal Plus 138 (178). doi: 10.1140/epjp/s13360-023-03773-0.
- Kulesza, A, Moreno Valero, L, and Theeuwes, V. . “Soft Gluon Resummation for the Associated Single Top and Higgs Production at the LHC.” Preprint. contribution to the European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics 2021 (EPS-HEP2021), Online doi: 10.22323/1.398.0469.
- Fedkevych, O, and Kulesza, A. . “Double parton scattering in four-jet production in proton-proton collisions at the LHC.” Physical Review D (PRD) 2021.
- Kulesza, A, Motyka, L, Schwartländer, D, Stebel, T, and Theeuwes, V. . “Top Precision for Associated Top-Pair Production Processes at the LHC.” Acta Phys. Polon. B 51: 1425.. doi: 10.5506/APhysPolB.51.1425.
- Borschensky, C, Fuks, B, Kulesza, A, and Schwartländer, D. . “Scalar leptoquark pair production at hadron colliders.” Phys. Rev. D 101 (11): 115017.. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.101.115017.
- Kulesza, A, Motyka, L, Schwartländer, D, Stebel, T, and Theeuwes, V. . “Associated top quark pair production with a heavy boson: differential cross sections at NLO+NNLL accuracy.” Eur. Phys. J. C 80 (5): 428.. doi: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-020-7987-6.
- Kulesza, A., Motyka, L., Schwartlaender, D., Stebel, T., and Theeuwes, V. . “Associate production of a H, W or Z with a ttbar-pair at the LHC: theoretical predictions at NLO+NNLL.” contribution to the 18th Hellenic School and Workshops on Elementary Particle Physics and Gravity (CORFU2018), Corfu, Greece
- Abada, A, and others. . “Future Circular Collider.” CERN Report 2019.
- Abada, A, and others. . “Future Circular Collider.” CERN Report 2019.
- Abada, A, and others. . “Future Circular Collider.” CERN Report 2019.
- Abada, A, and others. . “Future Circular Collider.” CERN Report 2019.
- Kulesza, A, Motyka, L, Schwartländer, D, Stebel, T, and Theeuwes, V. . “Associated production of a top quark pair with a heavy electroweak gauge boson at NLO$+$NNLL accuracy.” Eur. Phys. J. C79 (3): 249.. doi: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-6746-z.
- Krämer, M, Kulesza, A, Mück, A, and Schürmann, R. . “Threshold Resummation for Dark-Matter Production at the LHC.” JHEP 2019.
- Kulesza, A, Motyka, L, Schwartländer, D, Stebel, T, and Theeuwes, V. . “Associated top-pair production with a heavy boson production through NLO+NNLL accuracy at the LHC.” in 54th Rencontres de Moriond on QCD and High Energy Interactions (Moriond QCD 2019) La Thuile, Italy, March 23-30, 2019, edited by Moriond QCD 2019. Moriond: Moriond QCD.
- Cid, Vidal X, and others. . “Beyond the Standard Model Physics at the HL-LHC and HE-LHC.” CERN Report 2018.
- Borschensky, C., and Kulesza, A. . “Double parton scattering in pair production of J /ψ mesons at the LHC revisited.” Physical Review D (PRD) 95 (3). doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.95.034029.
- Kulesza, A., Motyka, L., Schwartländer, D, Stebel, T., and Theeuwes, V. . “Soft gluon resummation for the associated production of a top quark pair with a W boson at the LHC.” contribution to the 2017 European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics (EPS-HEP 2017), Venice
- Kulesza, A., Motyka, L., Stebel, T., and Theeuwes, V. . “Improving predictions for associated tth production at the LHC: soft gluon resummation through NNLL accuracy.” contribution to the 2017 European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics (EPS-HEP 2017), Venice
- Beenakker, W., Borschensky, C., Krämer, M., Kulesza, A., Laenen, E., Marzani, S., and Rojo, J. . “NLO+NLL squark and gluino production cross sections with threshold-improved parton distributions.” European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields 76 (2): 1–15. doi: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-3892-4.
- Kulesza, A., Motyka, L., Stebel, T., and Theeuwes, V. . “Soft gluon resummation for associated ttH production at the LHC.” Journal of High Energy Physics 2016 (3). doi: 10.1007/JHEP03(2016)065.
- Kulesza, A., Motyka, L., Stebel, T., and Theeuwes, V. . “Soft gluon resummation at fixed invariant mass for associated ttH production at the LHC.” in Vol. null of Large Hadron Collider Physics Proceedings of Science.
- Beenakker, W., Borschensky, C., Heger, R., Krämer, M., Kulesza, A., and Laenen, E. . “NNLL resummation for stop pair-production at the LHC.” Journal of High Energy Physics 2016 (5): 1–24. doi: 10.1007/JHEP05(2016)153.
- Beenakker, W., Borschensky, C., Krämer, M., Kulesza, A., and Laenen, E. . “NNLL-fast: predictions for coloured supersymmetric particle production at the LHC with threshold and Coulomb resummation.” Journal of High Energy Physics 2016 (12). doi: 10.1007/JHEP12(2016)133.
- Borschensky, C., Krämer, M., Kulesza, A., Mangano, M., Padhi, S., Plehn, T., and Portell, X. . “Squark and gluino production cross sections in TeV.” European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields 74 (12). doi: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-014-3174-y.
- Borschensky, Christoph C., Krämer, Michael M., Kulesza, Anna A., Mangano, Michelangelo L. M.L., Padhi, Sanjay S., Plehn, Tilman T., and Portell, Xavier X. . “Squark and gluino production cross sections in pp collisions at √s= 13, 14, 33 and 100 TeV.” European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields 74 (12): 12. doi: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-014-3174-y.
- Harlander, Robert V. R.V., Kulesza, Anna A., Theeuwes, Vincent V., and Zirke, Tom J E T.J.E. . “Soft gluon resummation for gluon-induced Higgs Strahlung.” Journal of High Energy Physics 2014 (11). doi: 10.1007/JHEP11(2014)082.
- Beenakker, Wim W., Borschensky, Christoph C., Krämer, Michael M., Kulesza, Anna A., Laenen, Eric E., Theeuwes, Vincent V., and Thewes, Silja S. . “NNLL resummation for squark and gluino production at the LHC.” Journal of High Energy Physics 2014 (12). doi: 10.1007/JHEP12(2014)023.
- Beenakker, W, Janssen, T, Lepoeter, S, Krämer, M, Kulesza, A, and others. . “Towards NNLL resummation: hard matching coefficients for squark and gluino hadroproduction.” JHEP 1310: 120.. doi: 10.1007/JHEP10(2013)120.
- Beenakker, W, Brensing, S, D'Onofrio, M, Kramer, M, Kulesza, A, Laenen, E, Martinez, M, and Niessen, I. . “Improved squark and gluino mass limits from searches for supersymmetry at hadron colliders.” Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and Cosmology 85 (7): –.. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.85.075014.
- Beenakker, W, Brensing, S, Kramer, M, Kulesza, A, Laenen, E, and Niessen, I. . “NNLL resummation for squark-antisquark pair production at the LHC.” Journal of High Energy Physics, № 1: –.. doi: 10.1007/JHEP01(2012)076.
- Kramer, M, Kulesza, A, Leeuw, R, Mangano, M, Padhi, S, and others. . Supersymmetry production cross sections in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrts=7$ TeV
- Kom, CH, Kulesza, A, and Stirling, WJ. . “Prospects for observation of double parton scattering with four-muon final states at LHCb.” European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields 71 (11): –..
- Kom, CH, Kulesza, A, and Stirling, WJ. . “Pair Production of J/psi as a Probe of Double Parton Scattering at LHCb.” Physical Review Letters 107 (8): –.. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.082002.
- Beenakker, W, Brensing, S, Kramer, M, Kulesza, A, Laenen, E, Motyka, L, and Niessen, I. . “SQUARK AND GLUINO HADROPRODUCTION.” International Journal of Modern Physics A 26 (16): 2637–2664. doi: 10.1142/S0217751X11053560.
- Gaunt, JR, Kom, C, Kulesza, A, and Stirling, W. . “Probing double parton scattering with leptonic final states at the LHC.” contribution to the 2nd International Workshop on Multiple Partonic Interactions at the LHC (MPI@LHC 2010), Glasgow, UK
- Bartalini, P, Berger, E, Blok, B, Calucci, G, Corke, R, and others. . Multi-Parton Interactions at the LHC, edited by Anna Nagy Zoltan Kulesza.
- Beenakker, W, Brensing, S, Kramer, M, Kulesza, A, Laenen, E, and others. . “NNLL Resummation for Squark-Antisquark Production.” PoS RADCOR2011: 043..
- Gaunt, JR, Kom, CH, Kulesza, A, and Stirling, WJ. . “Same-sign W pair production as a probe of double-parton scattering at the LHC.” European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields 69 (1-2): 53–65.
- Beenakker, W, Brensing, S, Kramer, M, Kulesza, A, Laenen, E, and Niessen, I. . “Supersymmetric top and bottom squark production at hadron colliders.” Journal of High Energy Physics, № 8: –.. doi: 10.1007/JHEP08(2010)098.
- Beenakker, W, Brensing, S, Kraemer, M, Kulesza, A, Laenen, E, and others. . “Soft Gluon Resummation for Squark and Gluino Pair-Production at hadron Colliders.” contribution to the 9th International Symposium on Radiative Corrections: Applications of Quantum Field Theory to Phenomenology (RADCOR 2009), Ascona, Switzerland
- Kulesza, A, Beenakker, W, Brensing, S, Kramer, M, Laenen, E, and others. . “Soft gluon resummation for squark and gluino pair-production at hadron colliders.” PoS RADCOR2009: 010..
- Beenakker, W, Brensing, S, Kramer, M, Kulesza, A, Laenen, E, and Niessen, I. . “Soft-gluon resummation for squark and gluino hadroproduction.” Journal of High Energy Physics, № 12: –.. doi: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/12/041.
- Kulesza, A, and Motyka, L. . “Soft gluon resummation for the production of gluino-gluino and squark-antisquark pairs at the LHC.” Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and Cosmology 80 (9): –.. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.80.095004.
- Kulesza, A, and Motyka, L. . “SOFT GLUON EFFECTS IN SUPERSYMMETRIC PARTICLE PRODUCTION AT THE LHC.” Acta Physica Polonica Series B 40 (7): 1957–1966.
- Kulesza, A, and Motyka, L. . “Threshold Resummation for Squark-Antisquark and Gluino-Pair Production at the LHC.” Physical Review Letters 102 (11): –.. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.111802.
- Kulesza, A. . “Squark and gluino production at the LHC.” PoS EPS-HEP2009: 220..
- Kuhn, JH, Kulesza, A, Pozzorini, S, and Schulze, M. . “Electroweak corrections to hadronic production of W bosons at large transverse momenta.” Nuclear Physics B 797 (1-2): 27–77. doi: 10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2007.12.029.
- Buttar, C, D'Hondt, J, Kramer, M, Salam, G, Wobisch, M, and others. . “Standard Model Handles and Candles Working Group: Tools and Jets Summary Report.” contribution to the 5th Les Houches Workshop on Physics at TeV Colliders, Les Houches, France
- Kulesza, A. . “Transverse momentum distributions for the Standard Model boson production at the LHC.” Acta Physica Polonica Series B 38 (7): 2319–2329.
- Kuhn, JH, Kulesza, A, Pozzorini, S, and Schulze, M. . “Electroweak corrections to large transverse momentum production of W bosons at the LHC.” Physics Letters B 651 (2-3): 160–165. doi: 10.1016/j.physletb.2007.06.028.
- Kulesza, A, and Schulze, M. . “Electroweak corrections to hadronic gauge boson production at large tranverse momentum.” PoS RADCOR2007: 001..
- Kuhn, JH, Kulesza, A, Pozzorini, S, and Schulze, M. . “Electroweak corrections to hadronic photon production at large transverse momenta.” Journal of High Energy Physics, № 3: –.. doi: 10.1088/1126-6708/2006/03/059.
- de Florian, D, Kulesza, A, and Vogelsang, W. . “Threshold resummation for high-transverse-momentum Higgs production at the LHC.” Journal of High Energy Physics, № 2: –..
- Buttar, C, Dittmaier, S, Drollinger, V, Frixione, S, Nikitenko, A, and others. . “Standard Model and Higgs working group: Summary report.” contribution to the Les houches physics at TeV colliders 2005 Workshop, Les Houches, France
- Kulesza, A. . “Resummed Higgs boson transverse momentum distribution at the LHC.” Czechoslovak Journal of Physics 55: B73–B79..
- Kuhn, JH, Kulesza, A, Pozzorini, S, and Schulze, M. . “One-loop weak corrections to hadronic production of Z bosons at large transverse momenta.” Nuclear Physics B 727 (1-2): 368–394. doi: 10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2005.08.019.
- Kuhn, JH, Kulesza, A, Pozzorini, S, and Schulze, M. . “Logarithmic electroweak corrections to hadronic Z+1 jet production at large transverse momentum.” Physics Letters B 609 (3-4): 277–285. doi: 10.1016/j.physletb.2005.01.059.
- Kulesza, A, Sterman, G, and Vogelsang, W. . “Joint resummation for Higgs boson production.” Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and Cosmology 69 (1): –.. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.69.014012.
- Balazs, C, Grazzini, M, Huston, J, Kulesza, A, and Puljak, I. . “A Comparison of predictions for SM Higgs boson production at the LHC.” contribution to the 3rd Les Houches Workshop: Physics at TeV Colliders, Les Houches, France
- Dobbs, M, Frixione, S, Laenen, E, De Roeck, A, Tollefson, K, and others. . “The QCD / SM working group: Summary report.” contribution to the 3rd Les Houches Workshop: Physics at TeV Colliders, Les Houches, France
- Kulesza, A, and Stirling, WJ. . “Non-perturbative effects and the resummed Higgs transverse momentum distribution at the LHC.” Journal of High Energy Physics, № 12: –.. doi: 10.1088/1126-6708/2003/12/056.
- Kulesza, A, Sterman, G, and Vogelsang, W. . “The resummed Higgs boson transverse momentum distribution at the LHC.” Acta Physica Polonica Series B 34 (11): 5503–5510.
- Kulesza, A, Sterman, G, and Vogelsang, W. . “Phenomenological studies in QCD resummation.” Nuclear Physics A 721: 591C–596C.. doi: 10.1016/S0375-9474(03)01130-8.
- Kulesza, A, Sterman, G, and Vogelsang, W. . “Joint resummation in electroweak boson production.” Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and Cosmology 66 (1): –.. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.66.014011.
- Giele, W, Glover, EN, Hinchliffe, I, Huston, J, Laenen, E, and others. . “The QCD / SM working group: Summary report.” contribution to the Les Houches Workshop, Les Houches, France
- Kulesza, A, Sterman, GF, and Vogelsang, W. . “Electroweak vector boson production in joint resummation.” contribution to the 37th Rencontres de Moriond on QCD and Hadronic Interactions, Les Arcs, France
- Kulesza, A, and Stirling, WJ. . “Soft gluon resummation in transverse momentum space for electroweak boson production at hadron colliders.” European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields 20 (2): 349–356.
- Berger, EL, Magill, S, Sarcevic, I, Jalilian-Marian, J, Kilgore, WB, and others. . “Summary: Working group on QCD and strong interactions.” eConf C010630: P5001..
- Berger, C, Berger, EL, Bhat, P, Butterworth, J, Ellis, S, and others. . “Snowmass 2001: Jet energy flow project.” eConf C010630: P512..
- Kulesza, A, and Stirling, WJ. . “Heavy gauge boson production at small transverse momentum in hadron-hadron collisions.” PARTICLE PHYSICS: IDEAS AND RECENT DEVELOPMENTS 555: 235–244. doi: 10.1007/978-94-011-4128-4_9.
- Kulesza, A, and Stirling, WJ. . “Sudakov logarithm resummation for vector boson production at hadron colliders.” Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics 26 (5): 637–642. doi: 10.1088/0954-3899/26/5/319.
- Kulesza, A, and Stirling, WJ. . “Like-sign W boson production at the LHC as a probe of double parton scattering.” Physics Letters B 475 (1-2): 168–175. doi: 10.1016/S0370-2693(99)01512-9.
- Kulesza, A, and Stirling, WJ. . “On the resummation of subleading logarithms in the transverse momentum distribution of vector bosons produced at hadron colliders.” Journal of High Energy Physics, № 1: –.. doi: 10.1088/1126-6708/2000/01/016.
- Catani, S, Dittmar, M, Soper, D, Stirling, WJ, Tapprogge, S, and others. . “QCD.” contribution to the Standard model physics (and more) at the LHC, Geneva, Switzerland
- Kulesza, A, and Stirling, WJ. . “Sudakov logarithm resummation in transverse momentum space for electroweak boson production at hadron colliders.” Nuclear Physics B 555 (1-2): 279–305. doi: 10.1016/S0550-3213(99)00298-9.
- Choudhury, D, Kalinowski, J, and Kulesza, A. . “CP-violating anomalous WW gamma couplings in e(+)e(-) collisions.” Physics Letters B 457 (1-3): 193–201. doi: 10.1016/S0370-2693(99)00527-4.
- Kulesza, A, and Stirling, W. . “Heavy gauge boson production at small transverse momentum in hadron-hadron collisions.” in Particle Physics: Ideas and Recent Developments, edited by J.-J.Aubert, R.Gastmans and and J.-M. Gerard.
Prof Dr. Anna Kulesza
