NLO QCD predictions for doubly-polarized WZ production at the LHC
Abstract
Accessing the polarization of weak bosons provides an important probe for the mechanism of electroweak symmetry breaking. Relying on the double-pole approximation and on the separation of polarizations at the amplitude level, we study WZ production at the LHC, with both bosons in a definite polarization mode, including NLO QCD effects. We compare results obtained defining the polarization vectors in two different frames. Integrated and differential cross-sections in a realistic fiducial region are presented.
- Publication:
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Physics Letters B
- Pub Date:
- March 2021
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.physletb.2021.136107
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2010.07149
- Bibcode:
- 2021PhLB..81436107D
- Keywords:
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- Di-boson;
- LHC;
- Polarization;
- Electroweak;
- NLO QCD;
- High Energy Physics - Phenomenology;
- High Energy Physics - Experiment
- E-Print:
- 10 pages, 5 figures, 1 table, slightly extended version to appear in Phys. Lett. B