Generalized unitarity at work: first NLO QCD results for hadronic W+3jet production

Abstract

We compute the leading color, next-to-leading order QCD corrections to the dominant partonic channels for the production of a W boson in association with three jets at the Tevatron and the LHC. This is the first application of generalized unitarity for realistic one-loop calculations. The method performs well in this non-trivial test and offers great promise for the future.

20 pages, 4 figures

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