John M. Campbell

Vector boson pair production at the LHC

We present phenomenological results for vector boson pair production at the LHC, obtained using the parton-level next-to-leading order program MCFM. We include the implementation of a new process in the code, pp → γγ, and important updates to existing processes. We incorporate fragmentation contributions in order to allow for the experimental isolation of photons in γγ, Wγ, and Zγ production and also account for gluon-gluon initial state contributions for all relevant processes. We present results for a variety of phenomenological scenarios, at the current operating energy of

An Update on vector boson pair production at hadron colliders

\sqrt {s} = 7

MCFM for the Tevatron and the LHC

TeV and for the ultimate machine goal,

Next-to-leading order corrections to

\sqrt {s} = 14

W^+

TeV. We investigate the impact of our predictions on several important distributions that enter into searches for new physics at the LHC.

2 jet and

We present numerical results (including full one-loop QCD corrections) for the processes

Z^+

p\overline{p}

2 jet production at hadron colliders

and

Hard interactions of quarks and gluons: a primer for LHC physics

p\stackrel{\ensuremath{\rightarrow}}{p}{W}^{+}{W}^{\ensuremath{-}},