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We present the first computation of the full next-to-leading-order QCD and electroweak corrections to the WZ scattering process at the LHC. All off-shell, gauge-boson-decay, and interference effects are taken into account for the process pp → μ+μ−e+νej j + X at the orders \( \mathcal{O} \)(αsα6) and \( \mathcal{O} \)(α7). The electroweak corrections feature the typical Sudakov behaviour towards high energy and amount to −16% relative to the electroweak contribution to the integrated cross section. Moreover, the corrections induce significant shape distortions in differential distributions. The next-to-leading-order analysis of the quark- and gluon-induced channels is supplemented by a leading-order study of all possible contributions to the full 4ℓ + 2jets production cross section in a realistic fiducial phase-space volume.
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Denner, A., Dittmaier, S., Maierhöfer, P. et al. QCD and electroweak corrections to WZ scattering at the LHC. J. High Energ. Phys. 2019, 67 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/JHEP06(2019)067
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