Fixed-order and merged parton-shower predictions for WW and WWj production at the LHC including NLO QCD and EW corrections

Abstract

First, we present a combined analysis of $\mathrm{p}\mathrm{p}\to {\mu }^{+}{\nu }_{\mu }{\mathrm{e}}^{-}{\bar{\nu }}_{\mathrm{e}}$ and $\mathrm{p}\mathrm{p}\to {\mu }^{+}{\nu }_{\mu }{\mathrm{e}}^{-}{\bar{\nu }}_{\mathrm{e}}\mathrm{j}$ at next-to-leading order, including both QCD and electroweak corrections. Second, we provide all-order predictions for $\mathrm{p}\mathrm{p}\to {\mu }^{+}{\nu }_{\mu }{\mathrm{e}}^{-}{\bar{\nu }}_{\mathrm{p}}+\mathrm{jets}$ using merged parton-shower simulations that also include approximate EW effects. A fully inclusive sample for WW production is compared to the fixed-order computations for exclusive zero- and one-jet selections. The various higher-order effects are studied in detail at the level of cross sections and differential distributions for realistic experimental set-ups. Our study confirms that merged predictions are significantly more stable than the fixed-order ones in particular regarding ratios between the two processes.

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