NLO production of W-prime bosons at hadron colliders using the MC@NLO and POWHEG methods.
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Papaefstathiou, Andreas
Latunde-Dada, Oluseyi
Abstract
We present a next-to-leading order (NLO) treatment of the production of a new charged heavy vector boson, generically called W′, at hadron colliders via the Drell- Yan process. We fully consider the interference effects with the Standard Model W boson and allow for arbitrary chiral couplings to quarks and leptons. We present results at both leading order (LO) and NLO in QCD using the MC@NLO/Herwig++ and POWHEG methods. We derive theoretical observation curves on the mass-width plane for both the LO and NLO cases at different collider luminosities. The event generator used, Wpnlo, is fully customisable and publicly available.
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Beyond Standard Model, NLO Computations
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High Energy Physics, Department of Physics,University of Cambridge