Resonances and unitarity in weak boson scattering at the LHC

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Published 5 November 2008 Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd
, , Citation Ana Alboteanu et al JHEP11(2008)010 DOI 10.1088/1126-6708/2008/11/010

1126-6708/2008/11/010

Abstract

A crucial test of the Standard Model is the measurement of electroweak gauge-boson scattering. In this paper, we describe a generic parameterization aimed at a realistic simulation of weak-boson scattering at the LHC. The parameterization implements resonances of all possible spin and isospin combinations, properly matched to the low-energy effective (chiral) Lagrangian, includes leading higher-order effects and contains a minimal unitarization scheme. We implement the parameterization in the Monte-Carlo event generator WHIZARD and present results for complete partonic cross-section integration and event generation. We provide a comparison with the effective W approximation that previously has been used for most WW scattering studies at hadron colliders.

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