Next-to-leading order predictions for WW plus jet distributions at the LHC

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作者
Campbell, John M. [1 ]
Ellis, R. Keith [2 ]
Zanderighi, Giulia [3 ]
机构
[1] Univ Glasgow, Dept Phys & Astron, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Lanark, Scotland
[2] Fermilab Natl Accelerator Lab, Batavia, IL 60510 USA
[3] Univ Oxford, Dept Phys, Rudolf Peierls Ctr Theoret Phys, Oxford OX1 3NP, England
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JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS | 2007年 / 12期
关键词
Higgs physics; NLO computations; QCD; hadronic colliders;
D O I
10.1088/1126-6708/2007/12/056
中图分类号
O412 [相对论、场论]; O572.2 [粒子物理学];
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摘要
We present numerical results for the production of a W+W- pair in association with a jet at the LHC in QCD at next-to-leading order (NLO). We include effects of the decay of the massive vector bosons into leptons with spin correlations and contributions from the third generation of massive quarks. The calculation is performed using a semi-numerical method for the virtual corrections, and is implemented in MCFM. In addition to its importance per se as a test of the Standard Model, this process is an important background to searches for the Higgs boson and to many new physics searches. As an example, we study the impact of NLO corrections to W+W-+ jet production on the search for a Higgs boson at the LHC.
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