NNLO W Pair Production at the LHC: Status Report

Abstract

We discuss the result with full mass dependence for the virtual NNLO QCD corrections to the W boson pair production in the quark-anti-quark annihilation channel. We also report on our progress regarding the treatment of the double-real radiative corrections which, along with the virtual-real corrections, are the other two necessary ingredients for a theoretical prediction of the total cross section for W+ W- production to NNLO accuracy.

Comments: 7 pages, to appear in the proceedings of The European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics (EPS-HEP 2013), Stockholm, Sweden, 18-24 July, 2013