Published June 2008 | Version v1
Journal article

NLO QCD corrections to tri-boson production

  • 1. The University of Edinburgh, School of Physics, Edinburgh EH9 3JZ (United Kingdom)
  • 2. Institute of Nuclear Physics, NCSR Demokritos, 15310 Athens (Greece)
  • 3. Departamento de Fisica Teorica y del Cosmos, CAPFE, Universidad de Granada, E-18071 Granada (Spain)

Description

We present a calculation of the NLO QCD corrections for the production of three vector bosons at the LHC, namely ZZZ, W+W-Z, W+ZZ, and W+W-W+ production. The virtual corrections are computed using the recently proposed method of reduction at the integrand level (OPP reduction). Concerning the contributions coming from real emission we used the dipole subtraction to treat the soft and collinear divergences. We find that the QCD corrections for these electroweak processes are in the range between 70 and 100 percent. As such they have to be considered in experimental studies of triple vector boson production at the LHC.

Availability note (English)

Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1126-6708/2008/06/082

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Journal of High Energy Physics
Journal Volume
06
Journal Issue
2008
Journal Page Range
p. 082
ISSN
1126-6708