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NLO QCD corrections to $W^\pm Z\gamma$ production with leptonic decays

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2011-02-03 v1

Abstract

We present a computation of the O(alpha_s) QCD corrections to W^\pm Z \gamma production at the Large Hadron Collider. The photon is considered as real, and we include full leptonic decays for the W and Z bosons. Based on the structure of the VBFNLO program package, we obtain numerical results through a fully flexible Monte Carlo program, which allows to implement general cuts and distributions of the final-state particles. The NLO QCD corrections are sizable and strongly exceed the theory error obtained by a scale variation of the leading-order result. Also, the shapes of relevant observables are significantly altered.

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@article{arxiv.1011.2206,
  title  = {NLO QCD corrections to $W^\pm Z\gamma$ production with leptonic decays},
  author = {G. Bozzi and F. Campanario and M. Rauch and H. Rzehak and D. Zeppenfeld},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1011.2206},
  year   = {2011}
}

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13 pages, 2 tables, 7 figures