ZA production in vector-boson scattering at next-to-leading order QCD

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Cross sections and differential distributions for ZA production in association with two jets via vector boson fusion are presented at next-to-leading order in QCD.

• The leptonic decays of the Z boson with full off-shell effects and spin correlations are taken into account.
• The uncertainties due to different scale choices and pdf sets are studied.
• Furthermore, we analyze the effect of including anomalous quartic gauge couplings at NLO QCD.