Anomalous coupling, top-mass and parton-shower effects in W+W− production

We calculate the process pp→W+W−→e+νeμ−ν¯μ\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$$ pp\to {W}^{+}{W}^{-}\to {e}^{+}{\nu}_e{\mu}^{-}{\overline{\nu}}_{\mu } $$\end{document} at NLO QCD, including also effective field theory (EFT) operators mediating the ggW+W− interaction, which first occur at dimension eight. We further combine the NLO and EFT matrix elements produced by GoSam with the Herwig7/Matchbox framework, which offers the possibility to study the impact of a parton shower. We assess the effects of the anomalous couplings by comparing them to top-mass effects as well as uncertainties related to variations of the renormalisation, factorisation and hard shower scales.