Published May 1, 2010 | Version v1
Journal article

Next-to-leading order QCD corrections to W+W-γ and ZZγ production with leptonic decays

  • 1. Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita di Milano and INFN, Sezione di Milano Via Celoria 16, I-20133 Milano (Italy)
  • 2. Departament de Fisica Teorica and IFIC, Universitat de Valencia-CSIC, E-46100, Burjassot, Valencia (Spain)
  • 3. Institut fuer Theoretische Physik, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Universitaet Karlsruhe, 76128 Karlsruhe (Germany)

Description

The computation of the O(αs) QCD corrections to the cross sections for W+W-γ and ZZγ 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 and Z bosons. Numerical results for the LHC and the Tevatron are obtained through a fully flexible parton level Monte Carlo program based on the structure of the VBFNLO program, allowing an easy implementation of arbitrary cuts and distributions. We show the dependence on scale variations of the integrated cross sections and provide evidence that next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD corrections strongly modify the LO predictions for observables at the LHC both in magnitude and in shape.

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
81
Journal Issue
9
Journal Page Range
p. 094030-094030.7
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

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