Next-to-leading order QCD predictions for W+3-jet distributions at hadron colliders
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Author(s)
Berger, Carola
Bern, Z.
Dixon, L. J.
Cordero, F. Febres
Forde, D.
Gleisberg, T.
Ita, H.
Kosower, D. A.
Maître, D.
Date Issued
October 2009
Journal
Physical Review D
Publisher
American Physical Society
Citation
Berger, C.F. et al "Next-to-leading order QCD predictions for W+3-jet distributions at hadron colliders." Physical Review D 80.7 (2009): 074036. © 2009 The American Physical Society
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Abstract
We present next-to-leading order QCD predictions for a variety of distributions in W+3-jet production at both the Tevatron and the Large Hadron Collider. We include all subprocesses and incorporate the decay of the W boson into leptons. Our results are in excellent agreement with existing Tevatron data and provide the first quantitatively precise next-to-leading order predictions for the LHC. We include all terms in an expansion in the number of colors, confirming that the specific leading-color approximation used in our previous study is accurate to within 3%. The dependence of the cross section on renormalization and factorization scales is reduced significantly with respect to a leading-order calculation. We study different dynamical scale choices, and find that the total transverse energy is significantly better than choices used in previous phenomenological studies. We compute the one-loop matrix elements using on-shell methods, as numerically implemented in the BlackHat code. The remaining parts of the calculation, including generation of the real-emission contributions and integration over phase space, are handled by the SHERPA package.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Center for Theoretical Physics
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.80.074036
