NLO QCD predictions for doubly-polarized WZ production at the LHC

Abstract

Accessing the polarization of weak bosons provides an important probe for the mechanism of electroweak symmetry breaking. Relying on the double-pole approximation and on the separation of polarizations at the amplitude level, we study WZ production at the LHC, with both bosons in a definite polarization mode, including NLO QCD effects. We compare results obtained defining the polarization vectors in two different frames. Integrated and differential cross-sections in a realistic fiducial region are presented.

Comments: 10 pages, 5 figures, 1 table, slightly extended version to appear in Phys. Lett. B