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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 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

A fully differential calculation of the next-to-leading order QCD corrections to the production of Z-boson pairs in association with a hard jet at the Tevatron and LHC is presented. This process is an important background for Higgs particle…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 T. Binoth , T. Gleisberg , S. Karg , N. Kauer , G. Sanguinetti

We compute the next-to-leading order QCD corrections to WZ+jet production at the Tevatron and the LHC, including decays of the electroweak bosons to light leptons with all off-shell effects taken into account. The corrections are sizable…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-21 F. Campanario , C. Englert , S. Kallweit , M. Spannowsky , D. Zeppenfeld

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

We present numerical results for the production of a $W^+W^-$ pair in association with a jet at the LHC in QCD at next-to-leading order (NLO). We include effects of the decay of the massive vector bosons into leptons with spin correlations…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-04-17 John M. Campbell , R. Keith Ellis , G. Zanderighi

In this contribution we present results from the NLO computation of the production of a $W$ boson in association with three jets in hadronic collisions. The results are obtained by combining two programs: {\tt BlackHat} for the virtual…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 C. F. Berger , Z. Bern , L. J. Dixon , F. Febres Cordero , D. Forde , T. Gleisberg , H. Ita , D. A. Kosower , D. Maitre

We compute the factorising second-order QCD corrections to the electroweak production of a Higgs boson through vector boson fusion. Our calculation is fully differential in the kinematics of the Higgs boson and of the final state jets, and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-05-02 J. Cruz-Martinez , T. Gehrmann , E. W. N. Glover , A. Huss

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 2010-01-15 Stefan Dittmaier , Stefan Kallweit , Peter Uwer

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

We present the implementation of electroweak Zjj and Wjj production via vector boson fusion with fully leptonic decays at NLO QCD in the POWHEG framework. These processes represent an important background to Higgs searches in vector boson…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-04-12 Franziska Schissler , Dieter Zeppenfeld

The next-to-leading order QCD corrections to W gamma production in association with two jets via vector boson fusion are calculated, including the leptonic decay of the W with full off-shell effects and spin correlations. The process lends…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-01-15 Francisco Campanario , Nicolas Kaiser , Dieter Zeppenfeld

NLO QCD corrections to H, W and Z production via vector boson fusion have recently been calculated in the form of flexible parton level Monte Carlo programs. This allows for the calculation of distributions and cross sections with cuts at…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 T. Figy , C. Oleari , D. Zeppenfeld

We discuss the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) QCD corrections to Z boson production in association with a jet including all partonic channels at all color levels and including the leptonic decay of the Z boson. We focus on the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-05-12 A. Gehrmann-De Ridder , T. Gehrmann , E. W. N. Glover , A. Huss , T. A. Morgan

The $W$-pair production in association with a massive (anti)bottom jet is not only an important background to a number of interesting processes, such as the single top production associated with a W boson, but also a potential background to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-08-19 Yan Han , Wang Shao-Ming , Ma Wen-Gan , Zhang Ren-You , Guo Lei

Vector-boson fusion processes constitute an important class of reactions at hadron colliders, both for signals and backgrounds of new physics in the electroweak interactions. We consider what is commonly referred to as W+W- production via…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Barbara Jager , Carlo Oleari , Dieter Zeppenfeld

We give a brief overview of our calculation of the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) QCD corrections to Z+jet production in hadronic collisions. Phenomenological results are presented which comprise various differential distributions for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-07-07 A. Gehrmann-De Ridder , T. Gehrmann , E. W. N. Glover , A. Huss , T. A. Morgan

We present a fully automated implementation of next-to-leading order electroweak (NLO EW) corrections in the OpenLoops matrix-element generator combined with the Sherpa and Munich Monte Carlo frameworks. The process-independent character of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-03-20 Stefan Kallweit , Jonas M. Lindert , Philipp Maierhöfer , Stefano Pozzorini , Marek Schönherr

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

The production of W or Z bosons in association with two jets is an important background to the Higgs boson search in vector-boson fusion at the LHC. The purely electroweak component of this background is dominated by vector-boson fusion,…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 Carlo Oleari , Dieter Zeppenfeld