The project has made significant progress on several of the grant's main directions of research. The main trust has been towards high-precision calculations for LHC processes. Specifically, the project has delivered state of the art predictions for essentially all LHC 2->2 processes. It has also produced the first ever NNLO predictions for processes with identified hadrons. In order to be able to calculate processes with flavored jets, new flavored anti-kT jet algorithm has been proposed and tested in a number of processes. The Project has furthermore pioneered the calculation of 2->3 processes and has been able to compute a number of those processes. Besides the calculation of state of the art cross sections, the project has also delivered a number of two-loop amplitudes which are the current bottleneck. The calculations performed here have become the basis for many LHC measurements as well as improved PDF, top quark mass and alpha_S determinations.
The second main trust of the grant has been the devising of new ways for making our results public. To this end our group was the first to utilize the so called fastNLO tables for calculations of highest available precision. When our results are produced in this format they are very easy to use by other researchers and, moreover, allow for extremely fast and inexpensive recalculation by changing certain parameters, which was not possible previously. Our calculations are now being produced in this format. All results made public so far are available from our webpage and are being extensively used by theorists and experimentalists alike. We have also introduced a novel concept which goes well beyond the existing state of the art in the filed: we made public the library HighTEA which allows users to perform their own NNLO calculations. The users do not need to have access to computing infrastructure or deep knowledge of a technical subject like higher order perturbative calculations in order to use it. In fact the tool can easily be used by the general public. It is meant to be a game changing addition to the ever expanding toolbox of collider physics.
