TY - JOUR
T1 - QCD corrections to triboson production
AU - Lazopoulos, Achilleas
AU - Melnikov, Kirill
AU - Petriello, Frank
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2007 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2007/7/5
Y1 - 2007/7/5
N2 - We present a computation of the next-to-leading order QCD corrections to the production of three Z bosons at the Large Hadron Collider. We calculate these corrections using a completely numerical method that combines sector decomposition to extract infrared singularities with contour deformation of the Feynman parameter integrals to avoid internal loop thresholds. The NLO QCD corrections to pp→ZZZ are approximately 50% and are badly underestimated by the leading order scale dependence. However, the kinematic dependence of the corrections is minimal in phase space regions accessible at leading order.
AB - We present a computation of the next-to-leading order QCD corrections to the production of three Z bosons at the Large Hadron Collider. We calculate these corrections using a completely numerical method that combines sector decomposition to extract infrared singularities with contour deformation of the Feynman parameter integrals to avoid internal loop thresholds. The NLO QCD corrections to pp→ZZZ are approximately 50% and are badly underestimated by the leading order scale dependence. However, the kinematic dependence of the corrections is minimal in phase space regions accessible at leading order.
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevD.76.014001
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevD.76.014001
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:34447121995
SN - 1550-7998
VL - 76
JO - Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
JF - Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology
IS - 1
M1 - 014001
ER -