arXiv:1202.6004·v1·High Energy Physics — Phenomenology
NLO QCD corrections to the production of W+ W- plus two jets at the LHC
N. Greiner🇩🇪 · G. Heinrich🇩🇪 · P. Mastrolia🇩🇪 · G. Ossola🇺🇸 · T. Reiter🇩🇪 · F. Tramontano🇨🇭
Abstract
We present the full NLO QCD corrections to the production of a W^+W^- pair in association with two jets in hadronic collisions, which is an important background to New Physics and Higgs boson searches. We include leptonic decays of the W-bosons with full spin correlations. We find NLO corrections of the order of 10% for standard cuts at the LHC. The scale dependence is considerably reduced by the NLO corrections.
Comments: 10 pages, 5 figures