2017/11/08 by Benedikt Biedermann, Biedermann, Benedikt, Ansgar Denner +3
Physics and Astronomy · #Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies #Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions #Cosmology and Gravitation Theories
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1711.02932
We report on a recent calculation of the complete NLO QCD and electroweak corrections to the process pp→μ+νμe+νejj, i.e. like-sign charged vector-boson scattering. The computation is based on the complete amplitudes involving two different orders of the strong and electroweak coupling constants at tree level and three different orders at one-loop level. We find electroweak corrections of -13% for the fiducial cross section that are an intrinsic feature of the vector-boson scattering process. For differential distributions, the corrections reach up to -40% in the phase-space regions explored. At the NLO level a unique separation between vector-boson scattering and irreducible background processes is not possible any more at the level of Feynman diagrams.