Published April 1, 2011 | Version v1
Journal article

Precise predictions for (nonstandard) Wγ+ jet production

  • 1. Institute for Theoretical Physics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, 76128 Karlsruhe (Germany)
  • 2. Institute for Theoretical Physics, Heidelberg University, 69120 Heidelberg (Germany)
  • 3. Institute of Theoretical Science, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403-5203 (United States)

Description

We report on a detailed investigation of the next-to-leading-order QCD corrections to Wγ+jet production at the Tevatron and the LHC using a fully flexible parton-level Monte Carlo program. We include the full leptonic decay of the W, taking into account all off-shell and finite width effects, as well as nonstandard WWγ couplings. We find particularly sizable corrections for the currently allowed parameter range of anomalous couplings imposed by LEP data. In total, the next-to-leading-order differential distributions reveal a substantial phase-space dependence of the corrections, leaving considerable sensitivity to anomalous couplings beyond scale uncertainty at large momentum transfers in the anomalous vertex.

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Journal Title
Physical Review. D, Particles Fields
Journal Volume
83
Journal Issue
7
Journal Page Range
p. 074009-074009.15
ISSN
0556-2821
CODEN
PRVDAQ

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