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QCD corrections to tri-boson production

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2008-11-26 v2 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We present a computation of the next-to-leading order QCD corrections to the production of three Z bosons at the LHC. We calculate these corrections using a completely numerical method that combines sector decomposition to extract infrared singularities with contour deformation of the Feynman parameter integrals to avoid internal loop thresholds. The NLO QCD corrections to pp -> ZZZ are approximately 50%, and are badly underestimated by the leading order scale dependence. However, the kinematic dependence of the corrections is minimal in phase space regions accessible at leading order.

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@article{arxiv.hep-ph/0703273,
  title  = {QCD corrections to tri-boson production},
  author = {Achilleas Lazopoulos and Kirill Melnikov and Frank Petriello},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ph/0703273},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

15 pages, 3 figures; typos fixed, references and event listing added

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