Normalizing weak boson pair production at the Large Hadron Collider
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ (United Kingdom)
- Department of Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706 (United States)
- Department of Physics, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham TW20 0EX (United Kingdom)
The production of two weak bosons at the Large Hadron Collider will be one of the most important sources of standard model backgrounds for final states with multiple leptons. In this paper we consider several quantities that can help normalize the production of weak boson pairs. Ratios of inclusive cross sections for production of two weak bosons and Drell-Yan are investigated and the corresponding theoretical errors are evaluated. The possibility of predicting the jet veto survival probability of VV production from Drell-Yan data is also considered. Overall, the theoretical errors on all quantities remain less than 5%-20%. The dependence of these quantities on the center of mass energy of the proton-proton collision is also studied.
- OSTI ID:
- 21322599
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review. D, Particles Fields, Vol. 80, Issue 5; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.80.054023; (c) 2009 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0556-2821
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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