# QCD and electroweak corrections to WZ scattering at the LHC

## TL;DR

This paper provides the first comprehensive calculation of next-to-leading-order QCD and electroweak corrections for WZ scattering at the LHC, including all off-shell and interference effects, revealing significant shape distortions and a -16% electroweak correction.

## Contribution

It introduces the first full NLO QCD and electroweak correction computation for WZ scattering, incorporating off-shell, decay, and interference effects at the LHC.

## Key findings

- Electroweak corrections reach -16% of the cross section.
- Significant shape distortions observed in differential distributions.
- Analysis includes quark- and gluon-induced channels with a LO study of full $4 ext{l}+2 ext{jets}$ production.

## Abstract

We present the first computation of the full next-to-leading-order QCD and electroweak corrections to the WZ scattering process at the LHC. All off-shell, gauge-boson-decay, and interference effects are taken into account for the process $\mathrm{p} \mathrm{p} \to \mu^+\mu^-\mathrm{e}^+\nu_\mathrm{e} \mathrm{j} \mathrm{j} + X$ at the orders $\mathcal{O}{\left( \alpha_\mathrm{s} \alpha^6 \right)}$ and $\mathcal{O}{\left( \alpha^7 \right)}$. The electroweak corrections feature the typical Sudakov behaviour towards high energy and amount to $-16\%$ relative to the electroweak contribution to the integrated cross section. Moreover, the corrections induce significant shape distortions in differential distributions. The next-to-leading-order analysis of the quark- and gluon-induced channels is supplemented by a leading-order study of all possible contributions to the full $4\ell+2\mbox{jets}$ production cross section in a realistic fiducial phase-space volume.