https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-024-13336-x
Regular Article
Release note: VBFNLO 3.0
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QuantumBasel, Schorenweg 44B, 4144, Arlesheim, Switzerland
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Theory Division, IFIC, University of Valencia-CSIC, Parque Científico, C/Catedrático José Beltrán, 2, 46980, Paterna, Spain
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IT Research Cyberinfrastructure, University of Delaware Newark, 19716, Newark, DE, USA
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Institute for Theoretical Physics, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), 76128, Karlsruhe, Germany
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Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics, Wichita State University, 1845 Fairmount Street, 67002, Wichita, KS, USA
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Institut für Theoretische Teilchenphysik und Kosmologie, RWTH Aachen University, 52056, Aachen, Germany
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Phenikaa Institute for Advanced Study, Phenikaa University, 12116, Hanoi, Vietnam
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Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Notkestr. 85, 22607, Hamburg, Germany
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Institute of Physics, NAWI Graz, University of Graz, Universitätsplatz 5, 8010, Graz, Austria
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Particle Physics, Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna, Boltzmanngasse 5, 1090, Wien, Austria
Received:
29
May
2024
Accepted:
2
September
2024
Published online:
7
October
2024
Vbfnlo is a flexible parton level Monte Carlo program for the simulation of vector boson fusion (VBF), QCD-induced single and double vector boson production plus two jets, and double and triple vector boson production (plus jet) in hadronic collisions at next-to-leading order (NLO) in the strong coupling constant, as well as Higgs boson plus two and three jet production via gluon fusion at the one-loop level. For the new version – Version 3.0 – several major enhancements have been included. An interface according to the Binoth Les Houches Accord (BLHA) has been added for all VBF and di/tri-boson processes including fully leptonic decays. For all dimension-8 operators affecting vector boson scattering (VBS) processes, a modified T-matrix unitarization procedure has been implemented. Several new production processes have been added, namely the VBS 
and 
processes at NLO, 
, WWj and ZZj production at NLO including the loop-induced gluon-fusion contributions and the gluon-fusion one-loop induced 
(
is a CP-even or CP-odd scalar boson) process at LO, retaining the full top-mass dependence. Finally, the code has been parallelized using Openmpi.
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