The complete NLO corrections to dijet hadroproduction

TL;DR

This paper computes all NLO QCD and electroweak corrections to dijet production in hadronic collisions, providing detailed theoretical predictions relevant for LHC phenomenology.

Contribution

It presents the complete NLO corrections including electroweak effects for dijet production, extending previous QCD-only calculations.

Findings

Both leading and next-to-leading order contributions follow expected hierarchy.

Electroweak corrections are significant at high energies.

Sample predictions for 13-TeV LHC are provided.

Abstract

We study the production of jets in hadronic collisions, by computing all contributions proportional to $\alpha_S^n\alpha^m$, with $n+m=2$ and $n+m=3$. These correspond to leading and next-to-leading order results, respectively, for single-inclusive and dijet observables in a perturbative expansion that includes both QCD and electroweak effects. We discuss issues relevant to the definition of hadronic jets in the context of electroweak corrections, and present sample phenomenological predictions for the 13-TeV LHC. We find that both the leading and next-to-leading order contributions largely respect the relative hierarchy established by the respective coupling-constant combinations.