WZ production in association with two jets at NLO in QCD

TL;DR

This paper presents a next-to-leading order QCD calculation of WZ production with two jets, improving theoretical precision and aiding Standard Model tests and new physics searches.

Contribution

It provides the first NLO QCD predictions for WZjj production with leptonic decays at hadron colliders, including detailed phase space dependence.

Findings

NLO corrections significantly reduce scale uncertainties

Corrections exhibit non-trivial phase space dependence

Results are relevant for Standard Model tests and BSM background estimates

Abstract

We report on the calculation of $W^\pm Zjj$ production with leptonic decays at hadron-hadron colliders at next-to-leading order in QCD. These processes are important both to test the quartic gauge couplings of the Standard Model and because they constitute relevant backgrounds to beyond standard model physics searches. Our results show that the next-to-leading order corrections reduce significantly the scale uncertainties and have a non-trivial phase space dependence.