Like-Sign W-Boson Scattering at the LHC -- Approximations and Full Next-to-Leading-Order Predictions

Abstract

We present a new calculation of next-to-leading-order corrections of the strong and electroweak interactions to like-sign W-boson scattering at the Large Hadron Collider, implemented in the Monte Carlo integrator Bonsay. The calculation includes leptonic decays of the $\mathrm{W}$ bosons. It comprises the whole tower of next-to-leading-order contributions to the cross section, which scale like ${\alpha }_{\mathrm{s}}^3{\alpha }^4$, ${\alpha }_{\mathrm{s}}^2{\alpha }^5$, ${\alpha }_{\mathrm{s}}{\alpha }^6$, and ${\alpha }^7$ in the strong and electroweak couplings ${\alpha }_{\mathrm{s}}$ and $\alpha$. We present a detailed survey of numerical results confirming the occurrence of large pure electroweak corrections of the order of $\sim -12\%$ for integrated cross sections and even larger corrections in high-energy tails of distributions. The electroweak corrections account for the major part of the complete next-to-leading-order correction, which amounts to $15-20\%$ in size, depending on the details of the event selection chosen for analysing vector-boson-scattering. Moreover, we compare the full next-to-leading-order corrections to approximate results based on the neglect of contributions that are not enhanced by the vector-boson scattering kinematics (VBS approximation) and on resonance expansions for the $\mathrm{W}$-boson decays (double-pole approximation); the quality of this approximation is good within $\sim 1.5\%$ for integrated cross sections and the dominating parts of the differential distributions. Finally, for the leading-order predictions, we construct different versions of effective vector-boson approximations, which are based on cross-section contributions that are enhanced by collinear emission of $\mathrm{W}$ bosons off the initial-state (anti)quarks; in line with previous findings in the literature, it turns out that the approximative quality is rather limited for applications at the LHC.

arXiv comment57 pages, 70 figures; version published in JHEP

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