https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-013-2663-8
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Simulated NNLO for high-p T observables in vector boson + jets production at the LHC
Institute for Particle Physics Phenomenology, Durham University, South Rd, Durham, DH1 3LE, UK
* e-mail: sebastian.sapeta@durham.ac.uk
Received:
24
July
2013
Revised:
18
October
2013
Published online:
6
December
2013
We present a study of higher-order QCD corrections beyond NLO to processes with an electroweak vector boson, W or Z, in association with jets. We focus on the regions of high transverse momenta of commonly used differential distributions. We employ the LoopSim method to merge NLO samples of different multiplicity obtained from mcfm and from blackhat+sherpa in order to compute the dominant part of the NNLO corrections for high-p T observables. We find that these corrections are indeed substantial for a number of experimentally relevant observables. For other observables, they lead to significant reduction of scale uncertainties.
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