5 research outputs found
Electroweak Corrections at High Energies
We present a survey of the most abundant processes at the LHC for sensitivity
to electroweak corrections at \sqrt{s} = 8, 14, 33, and 100 TeV proton-proton
collision energies. The processes studied are pp -> dijet, inclusive W and Z,
W/Z+jets, and WW. In each case we compare the experimental uncertainty in the
highest kinematic regions of interest with the relative magnitude of
electroweak corrections and fixed-order \alpha_S calculations.Comment: Contribution to the Snowmass-2013 report of the QCD Working Group. 15
pages, 14 figures, 5 tables. Version 2: Added a new section 4A and updated
the author list, acknowledgements, and references. Version 3: Added a new
reference Ref.[36
Implementation of electroweak corrections in the POWHEG BOX: single W production
We present a fully consistent implementation of electroweak and strong
radiative corrections to single W hadroproduction in the POWHEG BOX framework,
treating soft and collinear photon emissions on the same ground as coloured
parton emissions. This framework can be easily extended to more complex
electroweak processes. We describe how next-to-leading order (NLO) electroweak
corrections are combined with the NLO QCD calculation, and show how they are
interfaced to QCD and QED shower Monte Carlo. The resulting tool fills a gap in
the literature and allows to study comprehensively the interplay of QCD and
electroweak effects to W production using a single computational framework.
Numerical comparisons with the predictions of the electroweak generator HORACE,
as well as with existing results on the combination of electroweak and QCD
corrections to W production, are shown for the LHC energies, to validate the
reliability and accuracy of the approachComment: 31 pages, 7 figures. Minor corrections, references added and updated.
Final version to appear in JHE