| Article | |
| Report number | CERN-TH-2016-197 ; arXiv:1609.09719 |
| Title | ZZ production in gluon fusion at NLO matched to parton-shower |
| Author(s) | Alioli, Simone (CERN) ; Caola, Fabrizio (CERN) ; Luisoni, Gionata (CERN) ; Röntsch, Raul (KIT, Karlsruhe, TP) |
| Publication | 2017-02-28 |
| Imprint | 30 Sep 2016 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Note | 11 pages, 20 figures |
| In: | Phys. Rev. D 95 (2017) 034042 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevD.95.034042 |
| Subject category | hep-ex ; Particle Physics - Experiment ; hep-ph ; Particle Physics - Phenomenology |
| Abstract | We present a calculation of the next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD corrections to the hadroproduction process $gg\to ZZ \to e^+e^- \mu^+ \mu^-$, matched to the parton shower in the POWHEG framework. We take advantage of the POWHEG BOX tool for the implementation and rely on PYTHIA 8 for the showering and hadronization stages. We fully include $\gamma^*/Z$ interference effects, while also covering the single-resonant region. For this phenomenological study we focus on four lepton production as a signal process, neglecting all quark mass effects as well as the Higgs-mediated contributions, which are known to be subdominant in this case. We provide predictions from our simulations for the 13 TeV LHC Run II setup, including realistic experimental cuts. |
| Copyright/License | arXiv nonexclusive-distrib. 1.0 preprint: © 2016-2024 CERN (License: CC-BY-4.0) publication: © 2017-2024 The Author(s) (License: CC-BY-3.0) |
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