Release note: VBFNLO 3.0

Author(s)
Julien Baglio, Francisco Campanario, Tinghua Chen, Heiko Dietrich-Siebert, Terrance Figy, Matthias Kerner, Michael Kubocz, Duc Ninh Le, Maximilian Löschner, Simon Plätzer, Michael Rauch, Ivan Rosario, Robin Roth, Dieter Zeppenfeld
Abstract

Vbfnlo is a flexible parton level Monte Carlo program for the simulation of vector boson fusion (VBF), QCD-induced single and double vector boson production plus two jets, and double and triple vector boson production (plus jet) in hadronic collisions at next-to-leading order (NLO) in the strong coupling constant, as well as Higgs boson plus two and three jet production via gluon fusion at the one-loop level. For the new version – Version 3.0 – several major enhancements have been included. An interface according to the Binoth Les Houches Accord (BLHA) has been added for all VBF and di/tri-boson processes including fully leptonic decays. For all dimension-8 operators affecting vector boson scattering (VBS) processes, a modified T-matrix unitarization procedure has been implemented. Several new production processes have been added, namely the VBS Zγjj and γγjj processes at NLO, γγjj, WWj and ZZj production at NLO including the loop-induced gluon-fusion contributions and the gluon-fusion one-loop induced Φjjj (Φ is a CP-even or CP-odd scalar boson) process at LO, retaining the full top-mass dependence. Finally, the code has been parallelized using Openmpi.

Organisation(s)
Particle Physics
External organisation(s)
QuantumBasel, Universitat de València, University of Delaware, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie, Wichita State University, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Phenikaa University, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz
Journal
European Physical Journal C
Volume
84
No. of pages
21
ISSN
1434-6044
DOI
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2405.06990
Publication date
10-2024
Peer reviewed
Yes
Austrian Fields of Science 2012
103012 High energy physics
ASJC Scopus subject areas
Engineering (miscellaneous), Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)
Portal url
https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/7960270d-f6fe-4420-9580-805c6245e50b