Next-to-leading order QCD corrections to W+W-γ and ZZγ production with leptonic decays
Abstract
The computation of the O(αs) QCD corrections to the cross sections for W+W-γ and ZZγ production in hadronic collisions is presented. We consider the case of a real photon in the final state, but include full leptonic decays of the W and Z bosons. Numerical results for the LHC and the Tevatron are obtained through a fully flexible parton level Monte Carlo program based on the structure of the VBFNLO program, allowing an easy implementation of arbitrary cuts and distributions. We show the dependence on scale variations of the integrated cross sections and provide evidence that next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD corrections strongly modify the LO predictions for observables at the LHC both in magnitude and in shape.
- Publication:
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Physical Review D
- Pub Date:
- May 2010
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevD.81.094030
- arXiv:
- arXiv:0911.0438
- Bibcode:
- 2010PhRvD..81i4030B
- Keywords:
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- 12.38.Bx;
- 13.85.-t;
- 14.70.-e;
- 14.70.Bh;
- Perturbative calculations;
- Hadron-induced high- and super-high-energy interactions;
- Gauge bosons;
- Photons;
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
- E-Print:
- Phys.Rev.D81:094030,2010