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We compute the next-to-leading order corrections of \( \mathcal{O}\left({\alpha}_s^2{\alpha}^3\right) \) to the hadronic production of two oppositely charged leptons and two hard jets, pp → jjℓ − ℓ +, using Recola and Collier. We include electroweak and QCD corrections at the given order and all off-shell effects. We provide detailed predictions for the LHC operating at 13 TeV and obtain per-cent-level corrections for the total cross section. For differential distributions we find significant non-uniform distortions in high-energy tails at the level of several ten per cent due to electroweak Sudakov logarithms and deformations at the level of a few per cent for angular variables.
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Denner, A., Hofer, L., Scharf, A. et al. Electroweak corrections to lepton pair production in association with two hard jets at the LHC. J. High Energ. Phys. 2015, 94 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP01(2015)094
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