W physics at the LHC with FEWZ 2.1

Seth Quackenbush*, Ryan Gavin, Ye Li, Frank Petriello

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Abstract

We present an updated version of the FEWZ (Fully Exclusive W and Z production) code for the calculation of and γ*Z production at next-to-next-to-leading order in the strong coupling. Several new features and observables are introduced, and an order-of-magnitude speed improvement over the performance of FEWZ 2.0 is demonstrated. New phenomenological results for production and comparisons with LHC data are presented, and used to illustrate the range of physics studies possible with the features of FEWZ 2.1. We demonstrate with an example the importance of directly comparing fiducial-region measurements with theoretical predictions, rather than first extrapolating them to the full phase space.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)209-214
Number of pages6
JournalComputer Physics Communications
Volume184
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 2013

Funding

We thank U. Klein for considerable input and testing during the initial stages of integrating the code, and K. Mueller, W. Sakumoto, S. Stoynev, and H. Yoo for substantial helpful feedback. This research is supported by the US DOE under contract DE-AC02-06CH11357 and the grant DE-FG02-91ER40684 , and by the Swiss National Science Foundation .

Keywords

  • NNLO
  • W

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Hardware and Architecture
  • General Physics and Astronomy

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