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Pair production of W gauge bosons is an important process at the LHC entering many experimental analyses, both as background in new-physics searches or Higgs measurements and as signal in precision studies and tests of the Standard Model.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-17 Francisco Campanario , Michael Rauch , Sebastian Sapeta

In the framework of the littlest Higgs model with $T$ parity, we study the $W_H$-pair production at the CERN Large Hadron Collider up to the QCD next-to-leading order (NLO). The kinematic distributions of final decay products and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-10-01 Du Song-Ming , Guo Lei , Liu Wen , Ma Wen-Gan , Zhang Ren-You

Charged gauge boson pair production at the Large Hadron Collider allows detailed probes of the fundamental structure of electroweak interactions. We present precise theoretical predictions for on-shell $W^+W^-$ production that include, for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-26 T. Gehrmann , M. Grazzini , S. Kallweit , P. Maierhöfer , A. von Manteuffel , S. Pozzorini , D. Rathlev , L. Tancredi

We present an implementation of electroweak W+W-jj production at hadron colliders in the POWHEG framework, a method that allows the interfacing of a next-to-leading order QCD calculation with parton shower Monte Carlo programs. We provide…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-12 Barbara Jager , Giulia Zanderighi

We consider the production of a pair of $Z$ bosons at the LHC and study the inclusion of EW corrections in theoretical predictions at fixed order and based on multijet-merged parton-shower simulations. To this end we present exact NLO EW…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-06-29 Enrico Bothmann , Davide Napoletano , Marek Schönherr , Steffen Schumann , Simon Luca Villani

The associated production of charged Higgs bosons and top quarks at hadron colliders is an important discovery channel to establish the existence of a non-minimal Higgs sector. Here, we present details of a next-to-leading order (NLO)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-10-19 M. Klasen , K. Kovarik , P. Nason , C. Weydert

We present a first application of a previously published method for the computation of QCD processes that is accurate at next-to-leading order, and that can be interfaced consistently to standard shower Monte Carlo programs. We have…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Paolo Nason , Giovanni Ridolfi

We present an approach to predict exclusive $W^+bW^-\bar{b}$ production at lepton colliders that correctly describes the top-anti-top threshold as well as the continuum region. We incorporate $t\bar{t}$ form factors for the NLL threshold…

We calculate the production of a W boson in association with up to two jets including at least one b-jet to next-to-leading order (NLO) in QCD at the CERN Large Hadron Collider with 7 TeV center-of-mass energy. Both exclusive and inclusive…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-03-20 F. Caola , J. M. Campbell , F. Febres Cordero , L. Reina , D. Wackeroth

We present next-to-leading order QCD corrections to production of two $W$ bosons in hadronic collisions in the extra dimension ADD model. Various kinematical distributions are obtained to order $\alpha_s$ in QCD by taking into account all…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-09-20 Neelima Agarwal , V. Ravindran , Vivek Kumar Tiwari , Anurag Tripathi

We consider the production of a Standard-Model (SM) Higgs boson in gluon fusion in hadronic collisions and compute the QCD corrections up to next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) and match them to parton showers (NNLO+PS). The complete…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-10-22 Marco Niggetiedt , Marius Wiesemann

We present a calculation of the next-to-leading-order electroweak corrections to W+\gamma\ production, including the leptonic decay of the W boson and taking into account all off-shell effects of the W boson, where the finite width of the W…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-11-13 Ansgar Denner , Stefan Dittmaier , Markus Hecht , Christian Pasold

We detail a simulation of Higgs boson production via gluon fusion, accurate at next-to-next-to-leading order in the strong coupling, including matching to a parton shower, yielding a fully exclusive, hadron-level description of the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-06-17 Keith Hamilton , Paolo Nason , Emanuele Re , Giulia Zanderighi

We describe the method used to build a simulation of Higgs boson production accurate at next-to-next-to-leading order and matched to a parton shower. The adopted procedure makes use of a combination of the POWHEG and MiNLO methods. We also…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-05-29 Emanuele Re

This thesis dissertation presents a prospect for a measurement of the charge asymmetry of the W boson mass (MW+ - MW-) at the LHC within the ATLAS experiment. This measurement is of primordial importance for the LHC experimental program,…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-09-30 Florent Fayette

We report on a recent calculation of the full next-to-leading-order electroweak corrections to Z-boson pair production with subsequent decays into four charged leptons. Using the complete matrix elements at leading order and next-to-leading…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-07-05 Benedikt Biedermann

In this talk we present a fully automated implementation of next-to-leading order electroweak (NLO EW) corrections in OpenLoops together with Sherpa and Munich. As a first application, we present NLO QCD+EW predictions for the production of…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-05-22 Stefan Kallweit , Jonas M. Lindert , Stefano Pozzorini , Marek Schönherr , Philipp Maierhöfer

In the context of the Standard Model effective field theory (SMEFT) the next-to-next-to-leading (NNLO) QCD corrections to the Higgsstrahlungs ($Vh$) processes in hadronic collisions are calculated and matched to a parton shower (PS).…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-12-12 Rhorry Gauld , Ulrich Haisch , Luc Schnell

We achieve for the first time NNLO QCD + NLO EW accuracy for doubly polarised WZ inclusive production at the LHC, in the case of fully leptonic decays. Additionally, we provide estimates for missing higher-order uncertainties in QCD…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-31 Giovanni Pelliccioli , Rene Poncelet

Understanding the polarisation structure and providing precise predictions for multi-boson processes at the LHC is becoming urgent in the light of the upcoming run-3 and high-luminosity data. The CMS and ATLAS collaborations have already…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-03-27 Ansgar Denner , Christoph Haitz , Giovanni Pelliccioli