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QCD and electroweak corrections to WZ scattering at the LHC

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Authors

Dittmaier, S 
Maierhöfer, P 
Pellen, M 

Abstract

We present the first computation of the full next-to-leading-order QCD and electroweak corrections to the WZ scattering process at the LHC. All off-shell, gauge-boson-decay, and interference effects are taken into account for the process ppμ+μe+νejj+X at the orders O(αsα6) and O(α7). The electroweak corrections feature the typical Sudakov behaviour towards high energy and amount to −16% relative to the electroweak contribution to the integrated cross section. Moreover, the corrections induce significant shape distortions in differential distributions. The next-to-leading-order analysis of the quark- and gluon-induced channels is supplemented by a leading-order study of all possible contributions to the full 4+2jets production cross section in a realistic fiducial phase-space volume.

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NLO Computations

Journal Title

Journal of High Energy Physics

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Journal ISSN

1126-6708
1029-8479

Volume Title

2019

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC