title: W-Boson Production in Association with a Jet at Next-to-Next-to-Leading Order in Perturbative QCD.
abstract: We present the complete calculation of W-boson production in association with a jet in hadronic collisions through next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) in perturbative QCD. To cancel infrared divergences, we discuss a new subtraction method that exploits the fact that the N-jettiness event-shape variable fully captures the singularity structure of QCD amplitudes with final-state partons. This method holds for processes with an arbitrary number of jets and is easily implemented into existing frameworks for higher-order calculations. We present initial phenomenological results for W+jet production at the LHC. The NNLO corrections are small and lead to a significantly reduced theoretical error, opening the door to precision measurements in the W+jet channel at the LHC.
authors: High Energy Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA.
authors: Radja
authors: R
authors: Boughezal
authors: Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA.
authors: Christfried
authors: C
authors: Focke
authors: Maryland Center for Fundamental Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA.|Center for High-Energy Physics, Peking University, Beijing, 100871, China.
authors: Xiaohui
authors: X
authors: Liu
authors: High Energy Physics Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, USA.|Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA.
authors: Frank
authors: F
authors: Petriello