NNLO QCD study of polarised $W^+ W^-$ production at the LHC

Understand

Longitudinal polarisation of the weak bosons is a direct consequence of Electroweak symmetry breaking mechanism providing an insight into its nature, and is instrumental in searches for physics beyond the Standard Model.

• We perform a polarisation study of the diboson production in the $p p \to e^+\nu_e\mu^-\bar\nu_\mu$ process at NNLO QCD in the fiducial setup inspired by experimental measurements at ATLAS.
• This is the first polarisation study at NNLO.
• We employ the double-pole approximation framework for the polarised calculation, and investigate NNLO effects arising in differential distributions.