QCD corrections to the hadronic production of a heavy quark pair and a W-boson including decay correlations

DOI10.1007/JHEP03(2011)027zbMATH Open1301.81285arXiv1011.6647OpenAlexW3106301063WikidataQ59270367 ScholiaQ59270367MaRDI QIDQ476019FDOQ476019

R. Keith Ellis, John Maxwell Campbell, S. Badger

Publication date: 27 November 2014

Published in: Journal of High Energy Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We perform an analytic calculation of the one-loop amplitude for the W-boson mediated process 0 o d u-bar Q Q-bar l-bar l, retaining the mass for the quark Q. The momentum of each of the massive quarks is expressed as the sum of two massless momenta and the corresponding heavy quark spinor is expressed as a sum of two massless spinors. Using a special choice for the heavy quark spinors we obtain analytic expressions for the one-loop amplitudes which are amenable to fast numerical evaluation. The full next-to-leading order (NLO) calculation of hadron+hadron o W( o e nu) b b-bar with massive b-quarks is included in the program MCFM. A comparison is performed with previous published work.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1011.6647

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zbMATH Keywords

NLO computationsQCDhadronic colliders

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Perturbative methods of renormalization applied to problems in quantum field theory (81T15) Feynman diagrams (81T18) Strong interaction, including quantum chromodynamics (81V05)

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Uses Software

• FORM

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