Implementation of electroweak corrections in the POWHEG BOX: single W production

Luca Barzè; Guido Montagna; Paolo Nason; Oreste Nicrosini; Fulvio Piccinini

doi:10.1007/jhep04(2012)037

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Implementation of electroweak corrections in the POWHEG BOX: single W production

Luca Barzè Guido Montagna Paolo Nason Oreste Nicrosini Fulvio Piccinini

Journal of High Energy Physics Vol. 2012 No. 4 · Springer Science and Business Media LLC

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Abstract

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 approach.

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Luca Barzè, Guido Montagna, Paolo Nason, et al. (2012). Implementation of electroweak corrections in the POWHEG BOX: single W production. Journal of High Energy Physics, 2012(4). https://doi.org/10.1007/jhep04(2012)037

Implementation of electroweak corrections in the POWHEG BOX: single W production

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