NLO QCD predictions for doubly-polarized WZ production at the LHC

Understand

Accessing the polarization of weak bosons provides an important probe for the mechanism of electroweak symmetry breaking.

• Relying on the double-pole approximation and on the separation of polarizations at the amplitude level, we study WZ production at the LHC, with both bosons in a definite polarization mode, including NLO QCD effects.
• We compare results obtained defining the polarization vectors in two different frames.
• Integrated and differential cross-sections in a realistic fiducial region are presented.