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NLO QCD corrections to the production of W+ W- plus two jets at the LHC
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Submitted 27 Feb 2012
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The authors' main claim We find NLO corrections of the order of 10% for standard cuts at the LHC.
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We present the full NLO QCD corrections to the production of a W^+W^- pair in association with two jets in hadronic collisions, which is an important background to New Physics and Higgs boson searches. We include leptonic decays of the W-bosons with full spin correlations. We find NLO corrections of the order of 10% for standard cuts at the LHC. The scale dependence is considerably reduced by the NLO corrections.
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| s0 | We present the full NLO QCD corrections to the production of a W^+W^- pair in association with two jets in hadronic collisions, which is an important background to New Physics and Higgs boson searches. | contribution 1.00 | 0.94 | 0.28 | asserted 1.00 |
| s1 | We include leptonic decays of the W-bosons with full spin correlations. | method 0.52 | 0.93 | 0.05 | asserted 0.99 |
| s2 | We find NLO corrections of the order of 10% for standard cuts at the LHC. | result 1.00 | 0.97 | 0.40 | asserted 1.00 |
| s3 | The scale dependence is considerably reduced by the NLO corrections. | result 0.94 | 0.82 | 0.18 | asserted 1.00 |
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We present the full NLO QCD corrections to the production of a W^+W^- pair in association with two jets in hadronic collisions, which is an important background to New Physics and Higgs boson searches. We include leptonic decays of the W-bosons with full spin correlations. We find NLO corrections of the order of 10% for standard cuts at the LHC. The scale dependence is considerably reduced by the NLO corrections.
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In fact, the latter two contributions have been shown to shift the total cross section below the percent-level [ref] .
$W^+W^-$ + 3 Jet Production at the Large Hadron Collider in NLO QCD · Introduction · 0.97
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For the QCD-mediated contributions to , and later also for , NLO results were presented in double-pole approximation, i.e. including only diagrams with two resonant $$ bosons, but leptonic $$ decays with full spin correlations [ref] .
NLO QCD corrections to W+ W+ jj production in vector-boson fusion at the LHC · Introduction · 0.80
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These calculations have been done for $W^+W^+jj$ [ref] , $W^+W^-jj$ [ref] , $W^±Zjj$ [ref] and $γγjj$ [ref] production.
Next-to-leading order QCD corrections to $W^+W^+$ and $W^-W^-$ production in association with two jets · Introduction · 0.85
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Already a long time ago, two categories of corrections with QCD couplings were considered in the literature: the QCD corrections at $α^6$ to VBS in VBS approximation [ref] , including its matching to a QCD parton shower within [ref] , and the $^3α^4$ contribution, which can be considered as $^±^±+2$ production via the strong interaction [ref] .
Like-Sign W-Boson Scattering at the LHC -- Approximations and Full Next-to-Leading-Order Predictions · Introduction · 0.99
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For the subtraction of the infrared singularities we use Catani-Seymour dipoles [ref] , supplemented with a slicing parameter $α$ as proposed in [ref] implemented in the package MadDipole [ref] .
Automation of the Dipole Subtraction Method in MadGraph/MadEvent · Description of the Calculation · 1.00
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For the subtraction of the infrared singularities we use Catani-Seymour dipoles [ref] , supplemented with a slicing parameter $α$ as proposed in [ref] implemented in the package MadDipole [ref] .
Integrated dipoles with MadDipole in the MadGraph framework · Description of the Calculation · 1.00
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For the subtraction of the infrared singularities we use Catani-Seymour dipoles [ref] , supplemented with a slicing parameter $α$ as proposed in [ref] implemented in the package MadDipole [ref] .
Next-to-leading order calculation of four-jet observables in electron-positron annihilation · Description of the Calculation · 1.00
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To facilitate comparisons, we use the same phase space point as in [ref] but with the conventions [equation] Numerical values for the momenta $p_1 …p_8$ from Ref. [ref] are reported in Table [ref].
NLO QCD corrections for W^+W^- pair production in association with two jets at hadron colliders · Numerical results at amplitude level · 0.83
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We used the MSTW2008 pdf set [ref] , where the values for $α_s$ at leading order and next-to-leading order are given by [equation] and the running is calculated at one loop for the tree-level result and at two loops for the next-to-leading order parts.
Parton distributions for the LHC · Setup · 0.84
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In the case of decaying $W$-bosons, we also checked all results presented in [ref] for $pp →W^+W^+ + 2$ jets and in [ref] for $pp →W^+W^- + 2$ jets.
NLO QCD corrections for W^+W^- pair production in association with two jets at hadron colliders · Numerical Checks · 0.97
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In the case of decaying $W$-bosons, we also checked all results presented in [ref] for $pp →W^+W^+ + 2$ jets and in [ref] for $pp →W^+W^- + 2$ jets.
Next-to-leading order QCD predictions for W+W+jj production at the LHC · Numerical Checks · 0.97
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This distribution, relevant in the context of Higgs searches, peaks at $ϕ_e^+μ^- = π$, in contrast to the case of leptons coming from a $H →W^+W^-$ decay, where the largest contributions stem from $ϕ_e^+μ^- →0$ [ref] .
Observing H -> W*W* -> e mu pT(miss) in weak boson fusion with dual forward jet tagging at the LHC · Results · 0.97
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The effect of singly-resonant diagrams, with only one $W$-boson radiated off an intermediate lepton stemming from a $γ$/$Z$-propagator, is strongly suppressed by phase space, as has been already noted in [ref] .
NLO QCD corrections to pp/ppbar --> WW+jet+X including leptonic W-boson decays · Partonic Subprocesses · 0.99
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These processes have been studied in [ref] .
NLO QCD corrections to WWbb production at hadron colliders · Partonic Subprocesses · 0.84
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These processes have been studied in [ref] .
Complete off-shell effects in top quark pair hadroproduction with leptonic decay at next-to-leading order · Partonic Subprocesses · 0.84
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These processes have been studied in [ref] .
Top quark spin correlations at the Tevatron and the LHC · Partonic Subprocesses · 0.84
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