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The longitudinal polarisation states of the $W$ and $Z$ bosons arise during electroweak (EW) symmetry breaking as the vector bosons absorb the Higgs boson's massless degrees of freedom. Consequently, these states are intrinsically linked to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-17 Rosa Colyer , Dominik Duda

Weak gauge boson pair production is an important process at the LHC because it probes the non-Abelian structure of electroweak interactions and it is a background process for many new physics searches, and with enough statistics we can…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-31 Le Duc Ninh

We present results for unpolarized and polarized semi-inclusive deep-inelastic scattering mediated by electroweak gauge bosons at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in perturbative quantum chromodynamics. The results include all relevant…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-04-01 Saurav Goyal , Sven-Olaf Moch , Vaibhav Pathak , V. Ravindran

We present a study at next-to-leading-order (NLO) of the process $pp \to W^\pm Z \to \ell \nu_l \ell'^+ \ell'^-$, where $\ell,\ell' =e, \mu$, at the Large Hadron Collider. We include the full NLO QCD corrections and the NLO electroweak (EW)…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-04-16 Julien Baglio , LE Duc Ninh

We present O(\alpha_s) results on the decays of polarized W^+- and Z bosons into massive quark pairs. The NLO QCD corrections to the polarized decay functions are given up to the second order in the quark mass expansion. We find a…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2012-10-15 S. Groote , J. G. Körner , P. Tuvike

We perform a study of $W$-boson production in polarized proton-proton collisions through next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in perturbative QCD. This calculation is required to extend the extraction of polarized parton distribution…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-05 Radja Boughezal , Hai Tao Li , Frank Petriello

We compute theoretical predictions for the production of a W-boson in association with a bottom-quark pair at hadron colliders at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in QCD, including the leptonic decay of the W-boson, while treating the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-17 Heribertus Bayu Hartanto , Rene Poncelet , Andrei Popescu , Simone Zoia

The semi-inclusive production of identified hadrons in deeply inelastic lepton scattering on polarized nucleons allows to probe the spin structure of the nucleon target in a more detailed level than through fully inclusive processes. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-10-02 Leonardo Bonino , Thomas Gehrmann , Markus Löchner , Kay Schönwald , Giovanni Stagnitto

We consider QCD radiative corrections to $W^+W^-$ production at the LHC and present the first fully differential predictions for this process at next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in perturbation theory. Our computation consistently…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-21 Massimiliano Grazzini , Stefan Kallweit , Stefano Pozzorini , Dirk Rathlev , Marius Wiesemann

We investigate the effects of the bottom-quark induced processes on the doubly polarized cross sections of $W^+W^-$ pair production at the LHC. The method to extract the on-shell single-top contribution is provided. Results for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-05-28 Thi Nhung Dao , Duc Ninh Le

The status of di-boson and tri-boson production is shortly review. Using the VBFNLO and the LOOPSIM package, approximated results at NNLO QCD are given for WZ production. Results for waa + jet at NLO QCD are also shown.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-07-10 Francisco Campanario , Christoph Englert , Michael Rauch , Sebastian Sapeta , Dieter Zeppenfeld

The three different helicity states of W bosons produced in the reaction e+ e- -> W+ W- -> l nu q q~ at LEP are studied using leptonic and hadronic W decays. Data at centre-of-mass energies \sqrt s = 183-209 GeV are used to measure the…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2012-08-27 L3 Collaboration

We present the first theoretical study of the polarization of lepton pairs produced in $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}} = 5.02$ TeV Pb+Pb collisions at the LHC, using next-to-leading order (NLO) dilepton emission rates. These calculations employ a…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2025-06-23 Xiang-Yu Wu , Han Gao , Bailey Forster , Charles Gale , Greg Jackson , Sangyong Jeon

Radiative corrections in pole approximation, which are based on the leading contribution in a systematic expansion of amplitudes about resonance poles, naturally decompose into factorizable corrections attributed to the production or decay…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2024-05-07 Stefan Dittmaier , Alexander Huss , Jan Schwarz

We report on the first fully differential calculation for $W^\pm Z$ production in hadron collisions up to next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in QCD perturbation theory. Leptonic decays of the $W$ and $Z$ bosons are consistently taken into…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-09-13 Massimiliano Grazzini , Stefan Kallweit , Dirk Rathlev , Marius Wiesemann

W bosons produced at high transverse momentum in hadron collisions can have polarization along the direction perpendicular to the production plane, which is odd under na$\ddot{\i}$ve-T-reversal where both the three-momenta and angular…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-13 Rikkert Frederix , Kaoru Hagiwara , Toshifumi Yamada , Hiroshi Yokoya

We present new results for next-to-leading order (NLO) electroweak (EW) corrections to double polarization signals in the $WZ$ production channel at the LHC using the $e^+\nu_e \mu^+ \mu^-$ final state. It is found that the EW corrections…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-03-04 Duc Ninh Le , Julien Baglio

Triboson production processes play a crucial role in probing the electroweak sector of the Standard Model, as they involve quartic gauge-boson couplings already at the tree level. With these measurements entering the precision era at the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-11-26 Paolo Garbarino , Massimiliano Grazzini , Stefan Kallweit , Chiara Savoini

Recently, a measurement of the vector-boson scattering process with same-sign W bosons has been reported by the CMS collaboration. Hence it is of prime importance to have precise predictions with next-to-leading order (NLO) accuracy. In…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-08-03 Benedikt Biedermann , Ansgar Denner , Mathieu Pellen

We perform the comprehensive analysis of the polarization effects on the e^+e^- -> W^+W^- process in the presence of the extra neutral gauge boson at the LC energies. Consideration of the polarizations of the produced W bosons and the beam…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-03-23 Dong-Won Jung , Kang Young Lee , H. S. Song , Chaehyun Yu