Vector Boson Pair Production in Hadronic Collisions at Order ${\alpha }_s$: Lepton Correlations and Anomalous Couplings

Abstract

We present cross sections for production of electroweak vector boson pairs, $WW$, $WZ$ and $ZZ$, in $p\bar{p}$ and $pp$ collisions, at next-to-leading order in ${\alpha }_s$. We treat the leptonic decays of the bosons in the narrow-width approximation, but retain all spin information via decay angle correlations. We also include the effects of $WWZ$ and $WW\gamma$ anomalous couplings.

Comments: 23 pages, 8 figures, 3 tables