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Main Authors: Agarwal, Bakul, Jones, Stephen, Kerner, Matthias, von Manteuffel, Andreas
Format: Preprint
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05684
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author Agarwal, Bakul
Jones, Stephen
Kerner, Matthias
von Manteuffel, Andreas
author_facet Agarwal, Bakul
Jones, Stephen
Kerner, Matthias
von Manteuffel, Andreas
contents We calculate the complete NLO QCD corrections to loop-induced $gg \rightarrow ZZ$ production including full top-quark mass effects. The two-loop virtual corrections are obtained by combining analytic results for the massless, Higgs-mediated, and one-loop factorizable contributions with numerically computed amplitudes containing the top-quark mass. We show that the choice of subtraction scheme for the virtual contribution impacts the precision with which the virtual contribution must be evaluated in order to obtain sufficiently precise phenomenological predictions. For direct production through a massive top-quark loop, we observe that the relative NLO corrections are large. The direct massive and Higgs-mediated contributions individually increase relative to the massless production at high diboson invariant mass, but interfere destructively with each other. At the Large Hadron Collider, the NLO corrections to the gluon channel give a sizable contribution to the $pp \to ZZ+X$ cross-section at N${}^3$LO.
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spellingShingle Complete Next-to-Leading Order QCD Corrections to $ZZ$ Production in Gluon Fusion
Agarwal, Bakul
Jones, Stephen
Kerner, Matthias
von Manteuffel, Andreas
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
We calculate the complete NLO QCD corrections to loop-induced $gg \rightarrow ZZ$ production including full top-quark mass effects. The two-loop virtual corrections are obtained by combining analytic results for the massless, Higgs-mediated, and one-loop factorizable contributions with numerically computed amplitudes containing the top-quark mass. We show that the choice of subtraction scheme for the virtual contribution impacts the precision with which the virtual contribution must be evaluated in order to obtain sufficiently precise phenomenological predictions. For direct production through a massive top-quark loop, we observe that the relative NLO corrections are large. The direct massive and Higgs-mediated contributions individually increase relative to the massless production at high diboson invariant mass, but interfere destructively with each other. At the Large Hadron Collider, the NLO corrections to the gluon channel give a sizable contribution to the $pp \to ZZ+X$ cross-section at N${}^3$LO.
title Complete Next-to-Leading Order QCD Corrections to $ZZ$ Production in Gluon Fusion
topic High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05684