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$W\gamma$ production at NNLO+PS accuracy in GENEVA

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2022-01-26 v1

Abstract

We present an event generator for the process ppνγpp\to \ell\nu_\ell\gamma at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in QCD and matched to the PYTHIA8 parton shower. The calculation makes use of the GENEVA framework, which combines a resummed calculation obtained via Soft-Collinear Effective Theory (SCET) with the fixed-order result. We validate the NNLO accuracy of our results by comparing predictions for inclusive quantities with an independent fixed-order calculation, and then present the resummed 0-jettiness spectrum at next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic (NNLL') accuracy. Finally, we compare our predictions against data collected by the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider during its 7 TeV run, finding good agreement.

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@article{arxiv.2105.13214,
  title  = {$W\gamma$ production at NNLO+PS accuracy in GENEVA},
  author = {Thomas Cridge and Matthew A. Lim and Riccardo Nagar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.13214},
  year   = {2022}
}

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8 pages, 4 figures