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photo Rikkert Frederix

Rikkert Frederix

Senior lecturer

photo Rikkert Frederix

Four-lepton production at hadron colliders : AMC@NLO predictions with theoretical uncertainties

Author

  • Rikkert Frederix
  • Stefano Frixione
  • Valentin Hirschi
  • Fabio Maltoni
  • Roberto Pittau
  • Paolo Torrielli

Summary, in English

We use aMC@NLO to study the production of four charged leptons at the LHC, performing parton showers with both HERWIG and Pythia6. Our underlying matrix element calculation features the full next-to-leading order O(α S) result and the O(α S 2) contribution of the gg channel, and it includes all off-shell, spin-correlation, virtualphoton-exchange, and interference effects. We present several key distributions together with the corresponding theoretical uncertainties. These are obtained through a process-independent technique that allows aMC@NLO to compute scale and PDF uncertainties in a fully automated way and at no extra CPU-time cost.

Publishing year

2012

Language

English

Publication/Series

Journal of High Energy Physics

Volume

2012

Issue

2

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Springer

Topic

  • Subatomic Physics

Keywords

  • Hadronic colliders
  • NLO computations
  • QCD
  • Standard model

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1029-8479