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Electroweak W+W− jj prodution at NLO in QCD matched with parton shower in the POWHEG-BOX

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We present an implementation of electroweak W + W − jj production at hadron colliders in the POWHEG framework, a method that allows the interfacing of a next-to-leading order QCD calculation with parton shower Monte Carlo programs. We provide results for both, fully and semi-leptonic decay modes of the weak bosons, taking resonant and non-resonant contributions and spin correlations of the final-state particles into account. To illustrate the versatility of our implementation, we provide phenomenological results for two representative scenarios with a light and with a heavy Higgs boson, respectively, and in a kinematic regime of highly boosted gauge bosons. The impact of the parton shower is found to depend on the setup and the observable under investigation. In particular, distributions related to a central-jet veto are more sensitive to these effects. Therefore the impact of radiation by the parton shower on next-to-leading order predictions should be assessed carefully on a case-by-case basis.

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Jäger, B., Zanderighi, G. Electroweak W+W− jj prodution at NLO in QCD matched with parton shower in the POWHEG-BOX. J. High Energ. Phys. 2013, 24 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP04(2013)024

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