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Precision study on $ZZ\gamma$ production including $Z$-boson leptonic decays at the ILC

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2016-03-16 v2

Abstract

We report on the precision predictions for the e+eZZγe^+e^-\to ZZ\gamma process including ZZ-boson leptonic decays at the ILC in the standard model (SM). The calculation includes the full next-to-leading (NLO) electroweak (EW) corrections and high order initial state radiation (h.o.ISR) contributions. We find that the NLO EW corrections heavily suppress the LO cross section, and the h.o.ISR effects are notable near the threshold while become small in high energy region. We present the LO and the NLO EW+h.o.ISR corrected distributions of the transverse momenta of final ZZ-boson and photon as well as the ZZ-pair invariant mass, and investigate the corresponding NLO EW and h.o.ISR relative corrections. We also study the leptonic decays of the final ZZ-boson pair by adopting the {\sc MadSpin} method where the spin correlation effect is involved. We conclude that both the h.o.ISR effects and the NLO EW corrections are important in exploring the ZZγZZ\gamma production at the ILC.

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@article{arxiv.1512.01879,
  title  = {Precision study on $ZZ\gamma$ production including $Z$-boson leptonic decays at the ILC},
  author = {Zhang Yu and Duan Peng-Fei and Ma Wen-Gan and Zhang Ren-You and Chen Chong},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.01879},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

8 pages, 13 figures. To match the published version in Eur.Phys.J. C76 (2016) 2, 76