1. Release Note -- VBFNLO 3.0
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Baglio, Julien, Campanario, Francisco, Chen, Tinghua, Dietrich-Siebert, Heiko, Figy, Terrance, Kerner, Matthias, Kubocz, Michael, Le, Duc Ninh, Löschner, Maximilian, Plätzer, Simon, Rauch, Michael, Rosario, Ivan, Roth, Robin, and Zeppenfeld, Dieter
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High Energy Physics - Phenomenology ,High Energy Physics - Experiment - Abstract
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 $Z\gamma jj$ and $\gamma \gamma jj$ processes at NLO, $\gamma \gamma jj $, $WWj$ and $ZZj$ production at NLO including the loop-induced gluon-fusion contributions and the gluon-fusion one-loop induced $\Phi jjj$ ($\Phi$ 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., Comment: 16 pages, 3 figures; new code available at http://ific.uv.es/vbfnlo/. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1107.4038
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- 2024