Work

The cleanest of them all: NLO electroweak corrections to vector-boson scattering into doubly polarised ZZ pairs at the LHC

Year: 2026

Type: article

Abstract: A bstract We present the first calculation of the next-to-leading-order electroweak corrections to vector-boson scattering into doubly polarised Z bosons at the LHC in the fully leptonic decay channel. The production and decay of the two polarised Z bosons are consistently modelled in the double-pole approximation, separating polarisation states at the amplitude level and including factorisable real and virtual electroweak corrections. Doubly polarised and unpolarised signals are investigated and confronted with off-shell results. A broad analysis, including results at integrated and differential level, is carried out in a realistic, CMS-inspired fiducial setup. Our study paves the way to upcoming analyses with LHC Run-3 and High-Luminosity data as well as to further phenomenological investigations.

Source: Journal of High Energy Physics

DOI: 10.1007/jhep09(2026)065

Authors: Ansgar Denner, Robert Franken, Santiago Lopez Portillo Chavez, Daniele Lombardi, Giovanni Pelliccioli

Institutions: University of Würzburg, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Torino, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Milano Bicocca, University of Milano-Bicocca

Language: English

Topic: Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies

Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics

Field: Physics and Astronomy

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W7167050616

FWCI:

Cites: 42

Cited by:

Related to: