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Precise predictions for w+3 jet production at hadron colliders
C F Berger1, Z Bern, L J Dixon
1Center for Theoretical Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.
Abstract:
We report on the first next-to-leading order QCD computation of W+3-jet production in hadronic collisions including all partonic subprocesses. We compare the results with data from the Tevatron and find excellent agreement. The required one-loop matrix elements are computed using on-shell methods, implemented in a numerical program, BlackHat. We use the SHERPA package to generate the real-emission contributions and to integrate the various contributions over phase space. We use a leading-color (large-N_{c}) approximation for the virtual part, which we confirm in W+1, 2-jet production to be valid to within three percent.
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