arXiv:0909.4949·v1·High Energy Physics — Phenomenology
NLO QCD Predictions for W+3 jets
C. F. Berger🇺🇸 · Z. Bern🇺🇸 · L. J. Dixon🇺🇸 · F. Febres Cordero🇺🇸 · D. Forde🇺🇸 · T. Gleisberg🇺🇸 · H. Ita🇺🇸 · D. A. Kosower🇫🇷 · D. Maitre🇬🇧
Abstract
In this contribution we present results from the NLO computation of the production of a boson in association with three jets in hadronic collisions. The results are obtained by combining two programs: {\tt BlackHat} for the virtual one-loop matrix elements and {\tt Sherpa} for the real-emission contributions. We present results for the Tevatron and the LHC, and address the issue of the choice of a common factorization and renormalization scale for this process.
Comments: Invited talk given at the European Physical Society Europhysics Conference on High Energy Physics, EPS-HEP 2009, July 16 - 22 2009, Krakow, Poland