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We present the full NLO QCD corrections to the production of a W^+W^- pair in association with two jets in hadronic collisions, which is an important background to New Physics and Higgs boson searches. We include leptonic decays of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-04 N. Greiner , G. Heinrich , P. Mastrolia , G. Ossola , T. Reiter , F. Tramontano

The data taken in Run II at the LHC have started to probe Higgs boson production at high transverse momentum. Future data will provide a large sample of events with boosted Higgs boson topologies, allowing for a detailed understanding of…

The production of a top-antitop quark pair in association with a $W$ boson ($t\bar tW$) is one of the heaviest signatures currently probed at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Since the first observation reported in 2015 the corresponding…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-12-08 Luca Buonocore , Simone Devoto , Massimiliano Grazzini , Stefan Kallweit , Javier Mazzitelli , Luca Rottoli , Chiara Savoini

We describe the computation of the $gg \to W^+W^-g$ process that contributes to the production of two $W$-bosons and a jet at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC). While formally of next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in QCD, this process…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-05 Tom Melia , Kirill Melnikov , Raoul Rontsch , Markus Schulze , Giulia Zanderighi

We present next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD predictions to $W^+W^-$ production in association with up to three jets at hadron colliders. We include contributions from couplings of the $W$ bosons to light quarks as well as trilinear vector…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-02-15 F. Febres Cordero , P. Hofmann , H. Ita

Electroweak gauge boson pair production is a very important process at the LHC as it probes the non-abelian structure of electroweak interactions and is a background process for many searches. We present full next-to-leading order…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-10-16 Julien Baglio , Le Duc Ninh , Marcus M. Weber

We compute the NLO QCD corrections to the pair production of W-bosons in association with two jets at the Tevatron and the LHC. This process is an important background to heavy Higgs-boson production in association with two jets, either in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-19 Tom Melia , Kirill Melnikov , Raoul Rontsch , Giulia Zanderighi

We present a first computation of the NNLO QCD cross section at the LHC for the production of four leptons from a Higgs boson decaying into W bosons. We study the cross section for a Higgs boson mass Mh = 165 GeV; around this value a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2008-11-26 Charalampos Anastasiou , Guenther Dissertori , Fabian Stoeckli

The most precise theoretical predictions for the total cross section for the associated production of a Higgs boson with a top-antitop quark pair at the LHC, first presented in \cite{Balsach:2025tth}, are reported. The calculation combines…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-16 Anna Kulesza

Measuring the polarization of electroweak bosons at the LHC allows for important tests of the electroweak-symmetry-breaking mechanism that is realized in nature. Therefore, precise Standard Model predictions are needed for the production of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-03 Ansgar Denner , Giovanni Pelliccioli

We present a next-to-leading-order QCD calculation for e+\nu e\mu+\nu\mu jj production in vector-boson fusion, i.e. the scattering of two positively charged W bosons at the LHC. We include the complete set of electroweak leading-order…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-05-30 Ansgar Denner , Lucia Hosekova , Stefan Kallweit

We present state-of-the-art high-precision theory predictions for the dominant angular coefficients parametrizing the spin-correlations in the production and decay of a W-boson produced at transverse momentum larger than 30 GeV. The…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-08-26 Timea Vitos

Electroweak vector-boson production, accompanied by multiple jets, is an important background to searches for physics beyond the Standard Model. A precise and quantitative understanding of this process is helpful in constraining deviations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-07-15 Z. Bern , L. J. Dixon , F. Febres Cordero , S. Hoeche , D. A. Kosower , H. Ita , D. Maitre

We report on the calculation of the next-to-leading order QCD corrections to the production of W-boson pairs in association with a hard jet at the Tevatron and the LHC, which is an important source of background for Higgs and new-physics…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-18 S. Dittmaier , S. Kallweit , P. Uwer

In these proceedings we present results from a recent calculation for the production of a W boson in conjunction with five jets at next-to-leading order in perturbative QCD. We also use results at lower multiplicities to extrapolate the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-08-20 Z. Bern , L. J. Dixon , F. Febres Cordero , S. Höche , H. Ita , D. A. Kosower , K. J. Ozeren , D. Maître

In electroweak-boson production processes with a jet veto, higher-order corrections are enhanced by logarithms of the veto scale over the invariant mass of the boson system. In this paper, we resum these Sudakov logarithms at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-23 Thomas Becher , Rikkert Frederix , Matthias Neubert , Lorena Rothen

Recent discrepancies between theoretical predictions and experimental data in multi-lepton plus $b$-jets analyses for the $t\bar{t}W^\pm$ process, as reported by the ATLAS collaboration, have indicated that more accurate theoretical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-08-04 Giuseppe Bevilacqua , Huan-Yu Bi , Heribertus Bayu Hartanto , Manfred Kraus , Jasmina Nasufi , Malgorzata Worek

We report on the calculation of the cross section for Higgs boson production in association with three jets via gluon fusion, at next-to-leading-order (NLO) accuracy in QCD, in the infinite top-mass approximation. After including the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-10-02 G. Cullen , H. van Deurzen , N. Greiner , G. Luisoni , P. Mastrolia , E. Mirabella , G. Ossola , T. Peraro , F. Tramontano

We study polarisation of W-bosons produced in association with one jet at the LHC. In particular, we provide all necessary theoretical ingredients for the precise extraction of polarisation fractions. To that end, we present new polarised…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-09 Mathieu Pellen , Rene Poncelet , Andrei Popescu

This work studies the associated production of a top-quark pair with a $W$, $Z$, or Higgs boson at the LHC. Predictions for the total cross sections as well as for several differential distributions of the massive particles in the final…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-09-04 Alessandro Broggio , Andrea Ferroglia , Rikkert Frederix , Davide Pagani , Benjamin D. Pecjak , Ioannis Tsinikos