Precise predictions for Wγγ plus jet production at hadron colliders

In this Letter we report on a calculation of W-+/-gamma gamma + jet production at next-to-leading order QCD. We include the leptonic decays of the W and take into account all off-shell and finite width effects. This is the first computation which falls into the category of triboson + jet production at next-to-leading order QCD. In total we find sizable corrections with non-trivial phase space dependencies. Therefore, our results are important for phenomenological analyses such as the extraction of anomalous electroweak quartic couplings from inclusive hadron collider data. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.