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Photoproduction of W Bosons at HERA: QCD Corrections

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2011-09-13 v4 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

W bosons can be produced in the channels e+- p -> W+- + X at HERA thus allowing to probe for anomalous trilinear couplings among the gauge bosons. We discuss the NLO QCD corrections to the photoproduction of W bosons with finite transverse momentum at HERA. The higher-order QCD corrections reduce the factorization scale dependence significantly and modify the leading order cross sections by +-O(10%).

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0203269,
  title  = {Photoproduction of W Bosons at HERA: QCD Corrections},
  author = {Kai-Peer O. Diener and Christian Schwanenberger and Michael Spira},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0203269},
  year   = {2011}
}

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15 pages, latex, 9 figures, published version