• DOI:10.1016/j.physletb.2016.01.046
Corpus ID: 59472320

QCD corrections to $W^+W^-$ production through gluon fusion

@article{Caola2016QCDCT,
  title={QCD corrections to \$W^+W^-\$ production through gluon fusion},
  author={F. Caola and K. Melnikov and R. Rontsch and L. Tancredi},
  journal={Physics Letters B},
  year={2016},
  volume={754},
  pages={275-280}
}

F. Caola, K. Melnikov, +1 author L. Tancredi

Published 2016

Physics

Physics Letters B

We compute the next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD corrections to the gg→W+W−→l1+ν1l2−ν¯2 process, mediated by a massless quark loop, at the LHC. This process first contributes to the hadroproduction of W+W− at O(αs2), but, nevertheless, has a sizable impact on the total production rate. We find that the NLO QCD corrections to the gg→W+W− process amount to O(50)%, and increase the NNLO QCD cross sections of pp→W+W− by approximately two percent, at both the 8 TeV and 13 TeV LHC. We also compute the… CONTINUE READING

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