NNLO QCD study of polarised W+W− production at the LHC
Rene Poncelet, Andrei Popescu
Abstract
A bstract Longitudinal polarisation of the weak bosons is a direct consequence of Electroweak symmetry breaking mechanism providing an insight into its nature, and is instrumental in searches for physics beyond the Standard Model. We perform a polarisation study of the diboson production in the pp → $$ {\mathrm{e}}^{+}{v}_{\mathrm{e}}{\mu}^{-}{\overline{v}}_{\mu } $$ <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"> <mml:msup> <mml:mi>e</mml:mi> <mml:mo>+</mml:mo> </mml:msup> <mml:msub> <mml:mi>v</mml:mi> <mml:mi>e</mml:mi> </mml:msub> <mml:msup> <mml:mi>μ</mml:mi> <mml:mo>−</mml:mo> </mml:msup> <mml:msub> <mml:mover> <mml:mi>v</mml:mi> <mml:mo>¯</mml:mo> </mml:mover> <mml:mi>μ</mml:mi> </mml:msub> </mml:math> process at NNLO QCD in the fiducial setup inspired by experimental measurements at ATLAS. This is the first polarisation study at NNLO. We employ the double-pole approximation framework for the polarised calculation, and investigate NNLO effects arising in differential distributions.