NLO WWZ production at the LHC

TL;DR

This paper provides the latest NLO QCD and EW predictions for WWZ production at the LHC, highlighting large QCD corrections and the importance of EW effects at high energies for understanding quartic gauge couplings.

Contribution

It presents the most recent NLO QCD and EW corrections to WWZ production, including total cross sections and differential distributions, improving theoretical precision.

Findings

QCD correction is approximately 100%

EW correction is a few percent at total level

EW correction becomes significant at high transverse momentum

Abstract

The tri-boson production is one of the key processes for the study of quartic gauge couplings. Next-to-leading order (NLO) corrections are mandatory to reduce theoretical uncertainties. In this study, the most up-to-date predictions including NLO QCD and NLO EW corrections to the total cross section and distributions of the WWZ production at the LHC are presented. We show that the QCD correction is about 100% and the EW correction is of a few percent at the total cross section level. The EW correction however becomes significant in the high energy regime of the gauge boson transverse momentum distributions.