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Threshold resummed and approximate next-to-next-to-leading order results for $W^+W^-$ pair production at the LHC

S. Dawson
(
- Brookhaven Natl. Lab.
)
,
Ian M. Lewis
(
- Brookhaven Natl. Lab.
)
,
Mao Zeng
(
- YITP, Stony Brook
)

Jul 11, 2013

14 pages

Published in:

Phys.Rev.D 88 (2013) 5, 054028

Published: Sep 26, 2013

e-Print:

1307.3249 [hep-ph]

DOI:

10.1103/PhysRevD.88.054028

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Abstract:

The next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD radiative corrections to W+W- production at hadron colliders are well understood. We combine NLO perturbative QCD calculations with soft-gluon resummation of threshold logarithms to find a next-to-next-to leading logarithmic (NNLL) prediction for the total cross section and the invariant mass distribution at the LHC. We also obtain approximate next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) results for the total W+W- cross section at the LHC which includes all contributions from the scale dependent leading singular terms. Our result for the approximate NNLO total cross section is the most precise theoretical prediction available. Uncertainties due to scale variation are shown to be small when the threshold logarithms are included. NNLL threshold resummation increases the W+W- invariant mass distribution by ~ 3-4% in the peak region for both \sqrt{S}=8 and 14 TeV. The NNLL threshold resummed and approximate NNLO cross sections increase the NLO cross section by 0.5-3% for \sqrt{S}=7, 8, 13, and 14 TeV.

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29 pages, 7 figures, 3 tables. Discussion added to introduction, references updated, and typos corrected

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