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Generalized unitarity at work: first NLO QCD results for hadronic W+3jet production

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2010-01-07 v1

Abstract

We compute the leading color, next-to-leading order QCD corrections to the dominant partonic channels for the production of a W boson in association with three jets at the Tevatron and the LHC. This is the first application of generalized unitarity for realistic one-loop calculations. The method performs well in this non-trivial test and offers great promise for the future.

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@article{arxiv.0901.4101,
  title  = {Generalized unitarity at work: first NLO QCD results for hadronic W+3jet production},
  author = {R. Keith Ellis and Kirill Melnikov and Giulia Zanderighi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0901.4101},
  year   = {2010}
}

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20 pages, 4 figures