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JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Volume -, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/JHEP11(2017)150
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QCD Phenomenology
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- Center for Computational Research at the University at Buffalo
- National Science Foundation CAREER award [PHY-1652066]
- U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of High Energy Physics [DE-AC02-07CH11359]
- U.S. Government
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In this paper we present a next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) QCD calculation of the processes pp -> l(+)l(-) and pp -> nu(nu) over bar gamma that we have implemented in MCFM. Our calculation includes QCD corrections at NNLO both for the Standard Model (SM) and additionally in the presence of Z gamma gamma and ZZ gamma anomalous couplings. We compare our implementation, obtained using the jettiness slicing approach, with a previous SM calculation and find broad agreement. Focusing on the sensitivity of our results to the slicing parameter, we show that using our setup we are able to compute NNLO cross sections with numerical uncertainties of about 0.1%, which is small compared to residual scale uncertainties of a few percent. We study potential improvements using two different jettiness definitions and the inclusion of power corrections. At root s = 13TeV we present phenomenological results and consider Z gamma as a background to H -> Z gamma production. We find that, with typical cuts, the inclusion of NNLO corrections represents a small effect and loosens the extraction of limits on anomalous couplings by about 10%.
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