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In this paper we present the NLO QCD + NLO EW corrections to the $ZZZ$ production with subsequent $Z$-boson leptonic decays at the LHC by adopting the improved narrow width approximation, which takes into account off-shell contributions and…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-10-20 Wang Hong , Zhang Ren-You , Ma Wen-Gan , Guo Lei , Li Xiao-Zhou , Wang Shao-Ming

We present next-to-leading order (NLO) predictions including QCD and electroweak (EW) corrections for the production and decay of off-shell electroweak vector bosons in association with up to two jets at the 13 TeV LHC. All possible…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-05-04 Stefan Kallweit , Jonas M. Lindert , Stefano Pozzorini , Marek Schönherr , Philipp Maierhöfer

Precision studies of the production of a high-transverse momentum lepton in association with missing energy at hadron colliders require that electroweak and QCD higher-order contributions are simultaneously taken into account in theoretical…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-01-22 G. Balossini , C. M. Carloni Calame , G. Montagna , M. Moretti , O. Nicrosini , F. Piccinini , M. Treccani , A. Vicini

We present a method for improving next-to-leading order electroweak (EW) predictions for lepton-scattering processes by consistently including double neutral-current corrections arising from vector-boson-fusion topologies, which are…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-16 Stefano Frixione , Fabio Maltoni , Davide Pagani , Marco Zaro

We present the first combination of NNLO QCD and NLO EW corrections for vector-boson pair production at the LHC. We consider all final states with two, three and four charged leptons, including resonant and non-resonant diagrams, spin…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-02-27 Massimiliano Grazzini , Stefan Kallweit , Jonas M. Lindert , Stefano Pozzorini , Marius Wiesemann

The computation of the NLO QCD corrections to the cross sections for W+W- gamma and ZZgamma production in hadronic collisions is presented. We consider the case of a real photon in the final state, but include full leptonic decays of the W…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-20 G. Bozzi , F. Campanario , V. Hankele , D. Zeppenfeld

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

Triple-W-boson production in proton-proton collisions allows for a direct access to the triple and quartic gauge couplings and provides a window to the mechanism of electroweak symmetry breaking. It is an important process to test the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2017-09-20 Stefan Dittmaier , Alexander Huss , Gernot Knippen

We provide a complete and consistent framework to include subasymptotic perturbative as well as mass corrections to the leading twist (tau=2) evaluation of charged and neutral current weak structure functions and the perturbative neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Kretzer , M. H. Reno

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

We consider lepton pair production at a hadron collider in a class of effective theories with the relevant operators being four-fermion contact interaction. Despite the nonrenormalizable nature of the interaction, we explicitly demonstrate…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-11-11 Debajyoti Choudhury , Swapan Majhi , V. Ravindran

Electroweak (EW) triboson production processes with at least one heavy gauge boson are of increasing interest at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) as direct precision probes of one of the least-tested sectors of the Standard Model (SM), the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-05-18 Huanfeng Cheng , Doreen Wackeroth

We study the sources of systematic errors in the measurement of the W to lepton and neutrino cross-sections at the LHC. We consider the systematic errors in both the total cross-section and acceptance for anticipated experimental cuts. We…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2009-02-18 Nadia E. Adam , Valerie Halyo , Scott A. Yost , Wenhan Zhu

Predictions of fiducial cross sections, differential cross sections and lepton charge asymmetry are presented for the production of $W^{\pm}$ bosons with leptonic decay up to next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in perturbative QCD.…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-07-26 Hasan Ogul , Kamuran Dilsiz , Emrah Tiras , Ping Tan , Yasar Onel , Jane Nachtman

The next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD radiative corrections to W+W- production at hadron colliders are well understood. We combine NLO perturbative QCD calculations with soft-gluon resummation of threshold logarithms to find a next-to-next-to…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-09-27 S. Dawson , Ian M. Lewis , Mao Zeng

We introduce an improvement to the FxFx matrix element merging procedure for $pp\to t \bar t W$ production at NLO in QCD with one and/or two additional jets. The main modification is an improved treatment of jets that are not…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-24 Rikkert Frederix , Ioannis Tsinikos

In this proceedings we compare phenomenological predictions for differential distributions in top-quark pair production at the LHC. In particular we consider NNLO QCD fixed-order predictions and parton-level predictions based on NLO QCD…

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

The tri-boson production is one of the key processes for the study of quartic gauge couplings. Next-to-leading order (NLO) corrections are mandatory to reduce theoretical uncertainties. In this study, the most up-to-date predictions…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2013-10-24 Dao Thi Nhung , Le Duc Ninh , Marcus M. Weber

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…