Anomalous coupling, top-mass and parton-shower effects in W+W{W^+W^-} production

Feb 16, 2016
24 pages
Published in:
  • JHEP 05 (2016) 106
  • Published: May 17, 2016
e-Print:
Report number:
  • MPP-2016-14,
  • KA-TP-06-2016,
  • HERWIG-2016-02,
  • IPPP-16-11,
  • MAN-HEP-2016-04,
  • ZU-TH-5-16,
  • MCnet-16-07
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Abstract: (Springer)
We calculate the process ppW+We+νeμνμ pp\to {W}^{+}{W}^{-}\to {e}^{+}{\nu}_e{\mu}^{-}{\overline{\nu}}_{\mu } at NLO QCD, including also effective field theory (EFT) operators mediating the ggW+^{+} W^{−} interaction, which first occur at dimension eight. We further combine the NLO and EFT matrix elements produced by GoSam with the Herwig7/Matchbox framework, which offers the possibility to study the impact of a parton shower. We assess the effects of the anomalous couplings by comparing them to top-mass effects as well as uncertainties related to variations of the renormalisation, factorisation and hard shower scales.
Note:
  • 24 pages, 16 figures
  • QCD
  • Vector Bosons
  • NLO Calculations
  • Parton Shower
  • Effective Field Theory
  • LHC
  • NLO Computations
  • QCD Phenomenology
  • coupling: anomaly
  • top: mass