THEP Journal Club

July 11, 2014 at 12:30 p.m. in Sozialraum der WA THEP

Riccardo Bartocci
Institut für Physik, THEP
rbartocc@uni-mainz.de

Prisco Lo Chiatto
Institut für Physik, THEP
plochiat@uni-mainz.de

Nicklas Ramberg
Institut für Physik, THEP
nramberg@uni-mainz.de

Miroslava Mosso Rojas
Institut für Physik, THEP
mmossoro@uni-mainz.de

Pizza & Physics at Lunchtime

NNLO QCD corrections to vector-boson pair production
Stefan Kallweit (University of Zürich)


I report on the computation of vector-boson pair production at next-to-next-to-leading order in QCD perturbation theory by means of the qT-subtraction method. This method, which is applicable to achieve NNLO QCD accuracy in the production of any colourless final-state, is introduced, and the technical realization of the calculation in a Monte Carlo integrator is discussed. Finally, I present numerical results on inclusive cross sections and selected distributions for the production of Zgamma/Wgamma pairs as well as first results on ZZ production.