Universality in W+Multijet Production

Z. Bern (1) , L. J. Dixon (2) , F. Febres Cordero (3) , S. Hoeche (2) , H. Ita (3) , D. A. Kosower (4) , D. Maitre (5) , K. J. Ozeren (1)

1 Department of Physics and Astronomy [UCLA, Los Angeles]
2 SLAC - SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
3 USB - Universidad Simon Bolivar
4 IPHT - Institut de Physique Théorique - UMR CNRS 3681
5 Department of Physics [Durham University]

We study $W$-boson production accompanied by multiple jets at 7 TeV at the LHC. We study the jet-production ratio, of total cross sections for $W$+$n$- to $W$+($n-1$)-jet production, and the ratio of distributions in the total transverse hadronic jet energy $H_{\rm T}^{\rm jets}$. We use the ratios to extrapolate the total cross section, and the differential distribution in $H_{\rm T}^{\rm jets}$, to $W$+6-jet production. We use the BlackHat software library in conjunction with SHERPA to perform the computations.

Domaines: Physique des Hautes Energies - Phénoménologie [hep-ph]

Z. Bern, L. J. Dixon, F. Febres Cordero, S. Hoeche, H. Ita, et al.. Universality in W+Multijet Production. 2016. ⟨cea-01303689v1⟩