NLO QCD corrections for W^+W^- pair production in association with two jets at hadron colliders

Abstract

We compute the NLO QCD corrections to the pair production of W-bosons in association with two jets at the Tevatron and the LHC. This process is an important background to heavy Higgs-boson production in association with two jets, either in gluon or weak boson fusion. We consider leptonic decays of W-bosons and include all the spin correlations exactly. For natural choices of the renormalization scale, the NLO QCD corrections to pp(ppbar) -> W^+W^-jj are moderate but different for various values of the center-of-mass collision energy at the LHC and the Tevatron, emphasizing the need to compute them explicitly.

28 pages, 12 figures

References in corpus (25)

• Parton distributions for the LHC
• Reducing full one-loop amplitudes to scalar integrals at the integrand level
• Automation of one-loop QCD corrections
• Direct extraction of one-loop integral coefficients
• Full one-loop amplitudes from tree amplitudes
• Parton Distributions for LHC
• Assault on the NLO Wishlist: pp -> tt bb
• A Numerical Unitarity Formalism for Evaluating One-Loop Amplitudes
• On the Rational Terms of the one-loop amplitudes
• Precise Predictions for W + 4 Jet Production at the Large Hadron Collider
• Measurement of the top quark-pair production cross section with ATLAS in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}=7\TeV$
• Next-to-Leading Order QCD Predictions for W+3-Jet Distributions at Hadron Colliders
• Complete off-shell effects in top quark pair hadroproduction with leptonic decay at next-to-leading order
• NLO QCD corrections to pp -> t anti-t b anti-b + X at the LHC
• NLO QCD corrections to WWbb production at hadron colliders
• Dominant QCD Backgrounds in Higgs Boson Analyses at the LHC: A Study of pp -> t anti-t + 2 jets at Next-To-Leading Order
• Next-to-Leading order Higgs + 2 jet production via gluon fusion
• First Measurement of the Cross Section for Top-Quark Pair Production in Proton-Proton Collisions at sqrt(s)=7 TeV
• W+3 jet production at the Tevatron
• Next-to-leading order QCD predictions for W+W+jj production at the LHC
• Next-to-leading order QCD corrections to W+W- production via vector-boson fusion
• One-loop amplitudes for W+3 jet production in hadron collisions
• Next-to-leading order predictions for WW + 1 jet distributions at the LHC
• W^+W^+ plus dijet production in the POWHEGBOX
• Perturbative QCD effects and the search for a H->WW->l nu l nu signal at the Tevatron

Cited by in corpus (45)

• The automated computation of tree-level and next-to-leading order differential cross sections, and their matching to parton shower simulations
• $W^{+}{W}^{-}$ production at hadron colliders in NNLO QCD
• Helac-nlo
• Soft triple-real radiation for Higgs production at N3LO
• $W^{\pm }Z$ production at the LHC: fiducial cross sections and distributions in NNLO QCD
• QCD corrections to ZZ production in gluon fusion at the LHC
• Numerical evaluation of virtual corrections to multi-jet production in massless QCD
• NLO QCD corrections to off-shell top-antitop production with leptonic decays at hadron colliders
• Four-Jet Production at the Large Hadron Collider at Next-to-Leading Order in QCD
• Next-to-Leading Order W + 5-Jet Production at the LHC
• Precise Predictions for Z + 4 Jets at Hadron Colliders
• Hadronic top-quark pair production in association with two jets at Next-to-Leading Order QCD
• Large electroweak corrections to vector-boson scattering at the Large Hadron Collider
• NLO QCD corrections to the production of Higgs plus two jets at the LHC
• NLO QCD corrections to multi-jet production at the LHC with a centre-of-mass energy of sqrt(s)=8 TeV
• Multi-leg One-loop Massive Amplitudes from Integrand Reduction via Laurent Expansion
• NLO QCD corrections to W+ W+ jj production in vector-boson fusion at the LHC
• NNLOPS accurate predictions for $W^{+}{W}^{-}$ production
• Towards pp -> VVjj at NLO QCD: Bosonic contributions to triple vector boson production plus jet
• Les Houches 2021: Physics at TeV Colliders: Report on the Standard Model Precision Wishlist
• WZ production in association with two jets at NLO in QCD
• Transversal Modes and Higgs Bosons in Electroweak Vector-Boson Scattering at the LHC
• Vector-Boson Scattering at the LHC: unravelling the Electroweak sector
• Next-to-Leading Order Gamma Gamma + 2-Jet Production at the LHC
• Next-to-leading order QCD corrections to $W^{+}{W}^{+}$ and $W^{-}{W}^{-}$ production in association with two jets
• The W_L W_L scattering at the LHC: improving the selection criteria
• A sensitivity study of VBS and diboson WW to dimension-6 EFT operators at the LHC
• Parton Shower Matching Systematics in Vector-Boson-Fusion WW Production
• Next-to-leading order QCD corrections to $W\gamma$ production in association with two jets
• W γ production in vector boson fusion at NLO in QCD
• Comparing efficient computation methods for massless QCD tree amplitudes: Closed Analytic Formulae versus Berends-Giele Recursion
• Towards W b bbar + j at NLO with an automatized approach to one-loop computations
• NLO QCD and EW corrections to vector-boson scattering into ${\mathrm{W}}^{+}{\mathrm{W}}^{-}$ at the LHC
• A Forward Branching Phase-Space Generator
• The Higgs boson and the physics of $WW$ scattering before and after Higgs discovery
• $W^{+}{W}^{-}$ + 3 Jet Production at the Large Hadron Collider in NLO QCD
• Diphoton production in vector-boson scattering at the LHC at next-to-leading order QCD
• Les Houches 2023 -- Physics at TeV Colliders: Report on the Standard Model Precision Wishlist
• Fully analytical O(α_s) results for on-shell and off-shell polarized W-boson decays into massive quark pairs
• Numerical evaluation of one-loop QCD amplitudes
• The production of gauge bosons pairs $W^{+}{W}^{-}$ associated with 0, 1 and 2 jets in proton-proton collisions at LHC
• Automated computation of scattering amplitudes
• Weak Bosons and Jets at the LHC
• Threshold resummation for $W$-boson pair production at NNLO+NNLL
• W^+W^+jj at NLO in QCD: an exotic Standard Model signature at the LHC