Joint INFN-UNIMI-UNIMIB Pheno Seminars

NLO EW/QCD Corrections for WZ Scattering at the LHC

by Christopher Schwan

Europe/Zurich
Edificio U2, Aula 5017 (Dipartimento di Fisica G. Occhialini, U2, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca)

Edificio U2, Aula 5017

Dipartimento di Fisica G. Occhialini, U2, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca

Piazza della Scienza, 3, 20126 Milano MI, Italia
Description

Vector-boson scattering (VBS) denotes an interesting class of processes with small cross sections which recently have been measured or are about to be measured due to the increasing integrated luminosity at the LHC. They allow us to probe the electroweak symmetry breaking, in particular, the interplay between quartic-, triple-, and  vector-vector-Higgs couplings. In this talk I will briefly summarise the physics opportunities of VBS and then present the first  calculation of the NLO EW/QCD corrections to the full off-shell scattering of W and Z at the LHC.