Anomalous couplings in WZ production beyond NLO QCD
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
2016-12-13 v1
Abstract
We study WZ production with anomalous couplings at NLO QCD using the LoopSim method in combination with the Monte Carlo program VBFNLO. Higher order corrections to WZ production are dominated by additional hard jet radiation. Those contributions are insensitive to anomalous couplings and should thus be removed in analyses. We do this using a dynamical jet veto based on the transverse energy of the QCD and EW final state particles. This removes jet dominated events without introducing problematic logs like a fixed jet veto.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1612.03577,
title = {Anomalous couplings in WZ production beyond NLO QCD},
author = {Francisco Campanario and Robin Roth and Sebastian Sapeta and Dieter Zeppenfeld},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.03577},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
Talk presented at Fourth Annual Large Hadron Collider Physics conference (LHCP2016), 13-18 June 2016, Lund, Sweden (10 pages)