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    Release Note -- Vbfnlo-2.6.0

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    Vbfnlo is a flexible parton level Monte Carlo program for the simulation of vector boson fusion (VBF), double and triple vector boson (plus jet) production in hadronic collisions at next-to-leading order (NLO) in the strong coupling constant, as well as Higgs boson plus two jet production via gluon fusion at the one-loop level. This note briefly describes the main additional features and processes that have been added in the new release -- Vbfnlo Version 2.6.0. At NLO QCD diboson production (W\gamma, WZ, ZZ, Z\gamma and \gamma\gamma), same-sign W pair production via vector boson fusion and the process W\gamma\gamma j have been implemented (for which one-loop tensor integrals up to six-point functions are included). In addition, gluon induced diboson production can be studied separately at the leading order (one-loop) level. The diboson processes WW, WZ and W\gamma can be run with anomalous gauge boson couplings, and anomalous couplings between a Higgs and a pair of gauge bosons is included in WW, ZZ, Z\gamma and \gamma\gamma diboson production. The code has also been extended to include anomalous gauge boson couplings for single vector boson production via VBF, and a spin-2 model has been implemented for diboson pair production via vector boson fusion.Comment: 14 pages, 6 tables; new code available at http://www-itp.particle.uni-karlsruhe.de/vbfnlo

    VBFNLO: A parton level Monte Carlo for processes with electroweak bosons -- Manual for Version 2.7.0

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    VBFNLO is a flexible parton level Monte Carlo program for the simulation of vector boson fusion (VBF), QCD induced single and double vector boson production plus two jets, and double and triple vector boson production (plus jet) in hadronic collisions at next-to-leading order (NLO) in the strong coupling constant, as well as Higgs boson plus two jet production via gluon fusion at the one-loop level. For the new version -- Version 2.7.0 -- several major enhancements have been included into VBFNLO. The following new production processes have been added: WγjjW\gamma jj in VBF, HHjjHHjj in VBF, WW, WjWj, WHWH, WHjWHj, pp→Spin-2jjpp\to \text{Spin-2}jj in VBF (with Spin-2→WW/ZZ→leptons\text{Spin-2}\to WW/ZZ\to\text{leptons}) and the QCD induced processes WZjjWZjj, WγjjW\gamma jj, W±W±jjW^\pm W^\pm jj and WjjWjj production. The implementation of anomalous gauge boson couplings has been extended to all triboson and VBF VVjjVVjj processes, with an enlarged set of operators yielding anomalous couplings. Finally, semileptonic decay modes of the vector bosons are now available for many processes, including VVjjVVjj in VBF, VVVVVV and VVγVV\gamma production
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