Tri-boson and WH production in the ${\mathrm{W}}^{+}{\mathrm{W}}^{+}\mathrm{jj}$ channel: predictions at full NLO accuracy and beyond

Abstract

In this work, we present the first full NLO predictions for the process $\mathrm{pp}\to {\mu }^{+}{\nu }_{\mu }{\mathrm{e}}^{+}{\nu }_{\mathrm{e}}\mathrm{jj}$ at the LHC in a typical tri-boson phase space. The NLO corrections reach 50% at the level of the fiducial cross section and have a very different hierarchy with respect to vector-boson-scattering phase spaces. By comparing the cross section of the full off-shell process with the sum of contributing on-shell electroweak-boson production subchannels, we find that the process is dominated by WWW and WH production, while vector-boson-scattering topologies still play a non-negligible role. In addition, NLO QCD predictions matched to parton shower which are supplemented by approximate electroweak corrections are provided. For the fiducial cross section, the electroweak corrections turn out to be small but the QCD corrections reach 47%. For the inclusive cross section, matching to parton shower affects the predictions by 7%. However, for differential distributions corrections due to the parton shower can be much more sizeable, depending on the region of phase space.

41 pages, 40 pdf files. Matches published version

References in corpus (90)

• The anti-k_t jet clustering algorithm
• A general framework for implementing NLO calculations in shower Monte Carlo programs: the POWHEG BOX
• A New Method for Combining NLO QCD with Shower Monte Carlo Algorithms
• Matching NLO QCD computations with Parton Shower simulations: the POWHEG method
• Event generation with SHERPA 1.1
• LHAPDF6: parton density access in the LHC precision era
• A General Algorithm for Calculating Jet Cross Sections in NLO QCD
• A parton shower algorithm based on Catani-Seymour dipole factorisation
• Better Jet Clustering Algorithms
• Comix, a new matrix element generator
• Event Generation with Sherpa 2.2
• QCD matrix elements + parton showers: The NLO case
• Three-jet cross sections to next-to-leading order
• QCD matrix elements and truncated showers
• Collier: a fortran-based Complex One-Loop LIbrary in Extended Regularizations
• The Dipole Formalism for Next-to-Leading Order QCD Calculations with Massive Partons
• A critical appraisal of NLO+PS matching methods
• Reduction schemes for one-loop tensor integrals
• Electroweak corrections to charged-current e+e- --> 4 fermion processes - technical details and further results
• Predictions for all processes e^+e^- -> 4 fermions + gamma
• Electroweak Radiative Corrections to Associated WH and ZH Production at Hadron Colliders
• How bright is the proton? A precise determination of the photon parton distribution function
• AMEGIC++ 1.0, A Matrix Element Generator In C++
• Robust Independent Validation of Experiment and Theory: Rivet version 3
• Reduction of one-loop tensor 5-point integrals
• NLO matrix elements and truncated showers
• A General Approach To Photon Radiation Off Fermions
• Scalar one-loop 4-point integrals
• Associated WH production at hadron colliders: a fully exclusive QCD calculation at NNLO
• RECOLA: REcursive Computation of One-Loop Amplitudes
• Electroweak radiative corrections to W-boson production at hadron colliders
• Electroweak radiative corrections to e+e- --> WW --> 4fermions in double-pole approximation -- the RACOONWW approach
• Automating dipole subtraction for QCD NLO calculations
• Radiative corrections to the semileptonic and hadronic Higgs-boson decays H -> W W/Z Z -> 4 fermions
• The complex-mass scheme for perturbative calculations with unstable particles
• Illuminating the photon content of the proton within a global PDF analysis
• Electroweak corrections to Higgs-strahlung off W/Z bosons at the Tevatron and the LHC with HAWK
• Recursive generation of one-loop amplitudes in the Standard Model
• Large NLO corrections in $t\bar{t}{W}^{\pm }$ and $t\bar{t}t\bar{t}$ hadroproduction from supposedly subleading EW contributions
• Handbook of LHC Higgs Cross Sections: 3. Higgs Properties
• Soft Photon Radiation in Particle Decays in SHERPA
• All electroweak four fermion processes in electron-positron collisions
• Separation of soft and collinear singularities from one-loop N-point integrals
• NLO QCD corrections to tri-boson production
• Next-to-leading order QCD predictions for W+W+jj production at the LHC
• Large electroweak corrections to vector-boson scattering at the Large Hadron Collider
• Next-to-leading order QCD corrections to W+W+jj and W-W-jj production via weak-boson fusion
• Beyond Standard Model calculations with Sherpa
• Higher-order QCD effects for associated WH production and decay at the LHC
• QCD corrections to charged triple vector boson production with leptonic decay
• LUSIFER: a LUcid approach to SIx-FERmion production
• NNLOPS accurate associated HW production
• Next-to-leading-order electroweak corrections to $pp\to W^{+}{W}^{-}\to$ 4 leptons at the LHC
• Dipole formalism with heavy fermions
• An automated subtraction of NLO EW infrared divergences
• NLO QCD+EW predictions for $2\ell 2\nu$ diboson signatures at the LHC
• Multi-jet merged top-pair production including electroweak corrections
• NLO corrections to electroweak and QCD production of W+W+ plus two jets in the POWHEGBOX
• Precise predictions for same-sign W-boson scattering at the LHC
• W^+W^+ plus dijet production in the POWHEGBOX
• Complete NLO corrections to ${\mathrm{W}}^{+}{\mathrm{W}}^{+}$ scattering and its irreducible background at the LHC
• Automation of NLO QCD and EW corrections with Sherpa and Recola
• The complete NLO corrections to dijet hadroproduction
• Higgsstrahlung at NNLL${}^{\prime }+$NNLO Matched to Parton Showers in GENEVA
• NLO QCD corrections to W+ W+ jj production in vector-boson fusion at the LHC
• RacoonWW1.3: A Monte Carlo program for four-fermion production at e^+ e^- colliders
• NLO QCD+EW predictions for HV and HV+jet production including parton-shower effects
• QCD and electroweak corrections to WZ scattering at the LHC
• PROPHECY4F 3.0: A Monte Carlo program for Higgs-boson decays into four-fermion final states in and beyond the Standard Model
• Vector-Boson Scattering at the LHC: unravelling the Electroweak sector
• An event generator for same-sign W-boson scattering at the LHC including electroweak corrections
• Resummation Effects in Vector-Boson and Higgs Associated Production
• Triple vector boson production through Higgs-Strahlung with NLO multijet merging
• Associated production of Higgs boson with vector boson at threshold N${}^3$LO in QCD
• Accurate simulation of W, Z and Higgs boson decays in Sherpa
• NLO QCD and EW corrections to vector-boson scattering into ZZ at the LHC
• Next-to-leading order electroweak corrections to off-shell WWW production at the LHC
• One-loop electroweak Sudakov logarithms: a revisitation and automation
• Combined NLO EW and QCD corrections to off-shell $\text{t}\overline{\text{t}}\text{W}$ production at the LHC
• Fixed-order and merged parton-shower predictions for WW and WWj production at the LHC including NLO QCD and EW corrections
• Higher-order EW corrections in ZZ and ZZj production at the LHC
• Full NLO corrections to 3-jet production and R32 at the LHC
• Next-to-leading order QCD corrections to ZZ production in association with two jets
• NLO QCD and EW corrections to vector-boson scattering into ${\mathrm{W}}^{+}{\mathrm{W}}^{-}$ at the LHC
• Next-to-leading-order QCD and electroweak corrections to triple-W production with leptonic decays at the LHC
• Complete NLO corrections to top-quark pair production with isolated photons
• Precise predictions for V+2 jet backgrounds in searches for invisible Higgs decays
• Like-Sign W-Boson Scattering at the LHC -- Approximations and Full Next-to-Leading-Order Predictions
• Photon splitting corrections to soft-photon resummation
• NLO QCD corrections to off-shell top-antitop production with semi-leptonic decays at lepton colliders

Cited by in corpus (3)

• Les Houches 2023 -- Physics at TeV Colliders: Report on the Standard Model Precision Wishlist
• NLO corrections to triple vector-boson production in final states with three charged leptons and two jets
• Prospect of the NUCLEUS Experiment at Chooz for Coherent Elastic Neutrino-Nucleus Scattering and New Physics Searches