$W^+W^-$ + 3 Jet Production at the Large Hadron Collider in NLO QCD
Abstract
We present next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD predictions to $W^+W^-$ production in association with up to three jets at hadron colliders. We include contributions from couplings of the $W$ bosons to light quarks as well as trilinear vector couplings. These processes are used in vector-boson coupling measurements, are background to Higgs signals and are needed to constrain many new physics scenarios. For the first time NLO QCD predictions are shown for electroweak di-vector boson production with three jets at a hadron collider. We show total and differential cross sections for the LHC with proton center-of-mass energies of 8 and 13 TeV. To perform the calculation we employ on-shell and unitarity methods implemented in the BlackHat library along with the SHERPA package. We have produced event files that can be accessed for future dedicated studies.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- December 2015
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.1512.07591
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1512.07591
- Bibcode:
- 2015arXiv151207591F
- Keywords:
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- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology;
- High Energy Physics - Experiment
- E-Print:
- Phys. Rev. D 95, 034006 (2017)