Next-to-leading-order QCD and electroweak corrections to WWW production at proton-proton colliders

Understand

Triple-W-boson production in proton-proton collisions allows for a direct access to the triple and quartic gauge couplings and provides a window to the mechanism of electroweak symmetry breaking.

• It is an important process to test the Standard Model (SM) and might be background to physics beyond the SM.
• We present a calculation of the next-to-leading order (NLO) electroweak corrections to the production of WWW final states at proton-proton colliders with on-shell W bosons and combine the electroweak with the NLO QCD corrections.
• We study the impact of the corrections to the integrated cross sections and to kinematic distributions of the W bosons.