Prof Dr. Anna Kulesza

Professur für Theoretische Physik (Prof. Kulesza)
Prof Dr. Anna Kulesza

Wilhelm-Klemm-Str. 9
48149 Münster

  • Research Areas

    • Theoretical particle physics

  • CV

    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

    • Bonocore D.; Kulesza A.; Pirsch J. . ‘Classical and quantum gravitational scattering with Generalized Wilson Lines.’ JHEP 2022, No. 3. doi: 10.1007/JHEP03(2022)147.
    • Borschensky C.; Fuks B.; Kulesza A.; Schwartländer D. . ‘Scalar leptoquark pair production at the LHC: precision predictions in the era of flavour anomalies.’ JHEP 2022, No. 2. doi: 10.1007/JHEP02(2022)157.
    • Bonocore D.; 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.; Kulesza A. . ‘Scalar leptoquarks at the LHC and flavour anomalies: a comparison of pair-production modes at NLO-QCD.’ JHEP 2022, No. 11. doi: 10.1007/JHEP11(2022)006.

    • Kulesza, A, Moreno Valero L, Theeuwes V. . ‘On soft gluon resummation for associated single top production with a Higgs boson at the LHC.’ Contributed to the EPS Conference on High-Energy Physics, Hamburg, Germany.

    • Fedkevych O, Kulesza A. . ‘Double parton scattering in four-jet production in proton-proton collisions at the LHC.’ Physical Review D 2021.
    • Kulesza A, Motyka L, Schwartländer D, Stebel T, 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, Schwartländer D. . ‘Scalar leptoquark pair production at hadron colliders.’ Phys. Rev. D 101, No. 11: 115017. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.101.115017.
    • Kulesza A, Motyka L, Schwartländer D, Stebel T, Theeuwes V. . ‘Associated top quark pair production with a heavy boson: differential cross sections at NLO+NNLL accuracy.’ Eur. Phys. J. C 80, No. 5: 428. doi: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-020-7987-6.

    • Kulesza, A., Motyka L., Schwartlaender D., Stebel T., Theeuwes V. . ‘Associate production of a H, W or Z with a ttbar-pair at the LHC: theoretical predictions at NLO+NNLL.’ Contributed to the 18th Hellenic School and Workshops on Elementary Particle Physics and Gravity (CORFU2018), Corfu, Greece.
    • Abada A, others. . ‘Future Circular Collider.’ CERN Report 2019.
    • Abada A, others. . ‘Future Circular Collider.’ CERN Report 2019.
    • Abada A, others. . ‘Future Circular Collider.’ CERN Report 2019.
    • Abada A, others. . ‘Future Circular Collider.’ CERN Report 2019.
    • Kulesza A, Motyka L, Schwartländer D, Stebel T, Theeuwes V. . ‘Associated production of a top quark pair with a heavy electroweak gauge boson at NLO$+$NNLL accuracy.’ Eur. Phys. J. C79, No. 3: 249. doi: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-6746-z.
    • Krämer M, Kulesza A, Mück A, Schürmann R. . ‘Threshold Resummation for Dark-Matter Production at the LHC.’ JHEP 2019.
    • Kulesza A, Motyka L, Schwartländer D, Stebel T, 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, 39–42. Moriond: Moriond QCD.

    • Cid Vidal X, others. . ‘Beyond the Standard Model Physics at the HL-LHC and HE-LHC.’ CERN Report 2018.

    • Kulesza A., Motyka L., Schwartländer D, Stebel T., Theeuwes V. . ‘Soft gluon resummation for the associated production of a top quark pair with a W boson at the LHC.’ Contributed to the 2017 European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics (EPS-HEP 2017), Venice. [online first]
    • Kulesza A., Motyka L., Stebel T., Theeuwes V. . ‘Improving predictions for associated tth production at the LHC: soft gluon resummation through NNLL accuracy.’ Contributed to the 2017 European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics (EPS-HEP 2017), Venice.
    • Borschensky C., Kulesza A. . ‘Double parton scattering in pair production of J /ψ mesons at the LHC revisited.’ Physical Review D 95, No. 3. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.95.034029.

    • Kulesza A., Motyka L., Stebel T., Theeuwes V. . ‘Soft gluon resummation for associated ttH production at the LHC.’ Journal of High Energy Physics 2016, No. 3. doi: 10.1007/JHEP03(2016)065.
    • Kulesza A., Motyka L., Stebel T., Theeuwes V. . ‘Soft gluon resummation at fixed invariant mass for associated ttH production at the LHC.’ Contributed to the 4th Annual Large Hadron Collider Physics, LHCP 2016, swe.
    • Beenakker W., Borschensky C., Heger R., Krämer M., Kulesza A., Laenen E. . ‘NNLL resummation for stop pair-production at the LHC.’ Journal of High Energy Physics 2016, No. 5: 1–24. doi: 10.1007/JHEP05(2016)153.
    • Beenakker W., Borschensky C., Krämer M., Kulesza A., Laenen E. . ‘NNLL-fast: predictions for coloured supersymmetric particle production at the LHC with threshold and Coulomb resummation.’ Journal of High Energy Physics 2016, No. 12. doi: 10.1007/JHEP12(2016)133.
    • Beenakker W., Borschensky C., Krämer M., Kulesza A., Laenen E., Marzani S., Rojo J. . ‘NLO+NLL squark and gluino production cross sections with threshold-improved parton distributions.’ European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields 76, No. 2: 1–15. doi: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-3892-4.

    • Borschensky,Christoph C.,Krämer,Michael M.,Kulesza,Anna A.,Mangano,Michelangelo L. M.L.,Padhi,Sanjay S.,Plehn,Tilman T.,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, No. 12: 12. doi: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-014-3174-y.
    • Harlander,Robert V. R.V.,Kulesza,Anna A.,Theeuwes,Vincent V.,Zirke,Tom J E T.J.E.,. . ‘Soft gluon resummation for gluon-induced Higgs Strahlung.’ Journal of High Energy Physics 2014, No. 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.,Thewes,Silja S.,. . ‘NNLL resummation for squark and gluino production at the LHC.’ Journal of High Energy Physics 2014, No. 12. doi: 10.1007/JHEP12(2014)023.
    • Borschensky C., Krämer M., Kulesza A., Mangano M., Padhi S., Plehn T., Portell X. . ‘Squark and gluino production cross sections in TeV.’ European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields 74, No. 12. doi: 10.1140/epjc/s10052-014-3174-y.

    • Beenakker W, Janssen T, Lepoeter S, Krämer M, Kulesza A, 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, Niessen I. . ‘Improved squark and gluino mass limits from searches for supersymmetry at hadron colliders.’ Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and Cosmology 85, No. 7: –. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.85.075014.
    • Beenakker W, Brensing S, Kramer M, Kulesza A, Laenen E, Niessen I. . ‘NNLL resummation for squark-antisquark pair production at the LHC.’ Journal of High Energy Physics , No. 1: –. doi: 10.1007/JHEP01(2012)076.
    • Kramer M, Kulesza A, Leeuw R, Mangano M, Padhi S, others. . Supersymmetry production cross sections in $pp$ collisions at $\sqrts=7$ TeV.

    • Kom CH, Kulesza A, Stirling WJ. . ‘Prospects for observation of double parton scattering with four-muon final states at LHCb.’ European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields 71, No. 11: –.
    • Kom CH, Kulesza A, Stirling WJ. . ‘Pair Production of J/psi as a Probe of Double Parton Scattering at LHCb.’ Physical Review Letters 107, No. 8: –. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.082002.
    • Beenakker W, Brensing S, Kramer M, Kulesza A, Laenen E, Motyka L, Niessen I. . ‘SQUARK AND GLUINO HADROPRODUCTION.’ International Journal of Modern Physics A 26, No. 16: 2637–2664. doi: 10.1142/S0217751X11053560.
    • Gaunt JR, Kom C, Kulesza A, Stirling W. . ‘Probing double parton scattering with leptonic final states at the LHC.’ Contributed to the 2nd International Workshop on Multiple Partonic Interactions at the LHC (MPI@LHC 2010), Glasgow, UK.
    • Kulesza Anna, Nagy Zoltan (Eds.): . Multi-Parton Interactions at the LHC.
    • Beenakker W, Brensing S, Kramer M, Kulesza A, Laenen E, others. . ‘NNLL Resummation for Squark-Antisquark Production.’ PoS RADCOR2011: 043.

    • Gaunt JR, Kom CH, Kulesza A, 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, No. 1-2: 53–65.
    • Beenakker W, Brensing S, Kramer M, Kulesza A, Laenen E, Niessen I. . ‘Supersymmetric top and bottom squark production at hadron colliders.’ Journal of High Energy Physics , No. 8: –. doi: 10.1007/JHEP08(2010)098.
    • Beenakker W, Brensing S, Kraemer M, Kulesza A, Laenen E, others. . ‘Soft Gluon Resummation for Squark and Gluino Pair-Production at hadron Colliders.’ Contributed 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, 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, Niessen I. . ‘Soft-gluon resummation for squark and gluino hadroproduction.’ Journal of High Energy Physics , No. 12: –. doi: 10.1088/1126-6708/2009/12/041.
    • Kulesza A, 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, No. 9: –. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.80.095004.
    • Kulesza A, Motyka L. . ‘SOFT GLUON EFFECTS IN SUPERSYMMETRIC PARTICLE PRODUCTION AT THE LHC.’ Acta Physica Polonica Series B 40, No. 7: 1957–1966.
    • Kulesza A, Motyka L. . ‘Threshold Resummation for Squark-Antisquark and Gluino-Pair Production at the LHC.’ Physical Review Letters 102, No. 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, Schulze M. . ‘Electroweak corrections to hadronic production of W bosons at large transverse momenta.’ Nuclear Physics B 797, No. 1-2: 27–77. doi: 10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2007.12.029.
    • Buttar C, D'Hondt J, Kramer M, Salam G, Wobisch M, others. . ‘Standard Model Handles and Candles Working Group: Tools and Jets Summary Report.’ Contributed 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, No. 7: 2319–2329.
    • Kuhn JH, Kulesza A, Pozzorini S, Schulze M. . ‘Electroweak corrections to large transverse momentum production of W bosons at the LHC.’ Physics Letters B 651, No. 2-3: 160–165. doi: 10.1016/j.physletb.2007.06.028.
    • Kulesza A, Schulze M. . ‘Electroweak corrections to hadronic gauge boson production at large tranverse momentum.’ PoS RADCOR2007: 001.

    • Kuhn JH, Kulesza A, Pozzorini S, Schulze M. . ‘Electroweak corrections to hadronic photon production at large transverse momenta.’ Journal of High Energy Physics , No. 3: –. doi: 10.1088/1126-6708/2006/03/059.
    • de Florian D, Kulesza A, Vogelsang W. . ‘Threshold resummation for high-transverse-momentum Higgs production at the LHC.’ Journal of High Energy Physics , No. 2: –.
    • Buttar C, Dittmaier S, Drollinger V, Frixione S, Nikitenko A, others. . ‘Standard Model and Higgs working group: Summary report.’ Contributed 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, Schulze M. . ‘One-loop weak corrections to hadronic production of Z bosons at large transverse momenta.’ Nuclear Physics B 727, No. 1-2: 368–394. doi: 10.1016/j.nuclphysb.2005.08.019.
    • Kuhn JH, Kulesza A, Pozzorini S, Schulze M. . ‘Logarithmic electroweak corrections to hadronic Z+1 jet production at large transverse momentum.’ Physics Letters B 609, No. 3-4: 277–285. doi: 10.1016/j.physletb.2005.01.059.

    • Kulesza A, Sterman G, Vogelsang W. . ‘Joint resummation for Higgs boson production.’ Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and Cosmology 69, No. 1: –. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.69.014012.
    • Balazs C, Grazzini M, Huston J, Kulesza A, Puljak I. . ‘A Comparison of predictions for SM Higgs boson production at the LHC.’ Contributed to the 3rd Les Houches Workshop: Physics at TeV Colliders, Les Houches, France.
    • Dobbs M, Frixione S, Laenen E, De Roeck A, Tollefson K, others. . ‘The QCD / SM working group: Summary report.’ Contributed to the 3rd Les Houches Workshop: Physics at TeV Colliders, Les Houches, France.

    • Kulesza A, Stirling WJ. . ‘Non-perturbative effects and the resummed Higgs transverse momentum distribution at the LHC.’ Journal of High Energy Physics , No. 12: –. doi: 10.1088/1126-6708/2003/12/056.
    • Kulesza A, Sterman G, Vogelsang W. . ‘The resummed Higgs boson transverse momentum distribution at the LHC.’ Acta Physica Polonica Series B 34, No. 11: 5503–5510.
    • Kulesza A, Sterman G, 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, Vogelsang W. . ‘Joint resummation in electroweak boson production.’ Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and Cosmology 66, No. 1: –. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevD.66.014011.
    • Giele W, Glover EN, Hinchliffe I, Huston J, Laenen E, others. . ‘The QCD / SM working group: Summary report.’ Contributed to the Les Houches Workshop, Les Houches, France.
    • Kulesza A, Sterman GF, Vogelsang W. . ‘Electroweak vector boson production in joint resummation.’ Contributed to the 37th Rencontres de Moriond on QCD and Hadronic Interactions, Les Arcs, France.

    • Kulesza A, Stirling WJ. . ‘Soft gluon resummation in transverse momentum space for electroweak boson production at hadron colliders.’ European Physical Journal C: Particles and Fields 20, No. 2: 349–356.
    • Berger EL, Magill S, Sarcevic I, Jalilian-Marian J, Kilgore WB, others. . ‘Summary: Working group on QCD and strong interactions.’ eConf C010630: P5001.
    • Berger C, Berger EL, Bhat P, Butterworth J, Ellis S, others. . ‘Snowmass 2001: Jet energy flow project.’ eConf C010630: P512.

    • Kulesza A, 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, Stirling WJ. . ‘Sudakov logarithm resummation for vector boson production at hadron colliders.’ Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics 26, No. 5: 637–642. doi: 10.1088/0954-3899/26/5/319.
    • Kulesza A, Stirling WJ. . ‘Like-sign W boson production at the LHC as a probe of double parton scattering.’ Physics Letters B 475, No. 1-2: 168–175. doi: 10.1016/S0370-2693(99)01512-9.
    • Kulesza A, 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 , No. 1: –. doi: 10.1088/1126-6708/2000/01/016.
    • Catani S, Dittmar M, Soper D, Stirling WJ, Tapprogge S, others. . ‘QCD.’ Contributed to the Standard model physics (and more) at the LHC, Geneva, Switzerland.

    • Kulesza A, Stirling WJ. . ‘Sudakov logarithm resummation in transverse momentum space for electroweak boson production at hadron colliders.’ Nuclear Physics B 555, No. 1-2: 279–305. doi: 10.1016/S0550-3213(99)00298-9.
    • Choudhury D, Kalinowski J, Kulesza A. . ‘CP-violating anomalous WW gamma couplings in e(+)e(-) collisions.’ Physics Letters B 457, No. 1-3: 193–201. doi: 10.1016/S0370-2693(99)00527-4.
    • Kulesza A, 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 J.-M. Gerard, 235–244.