Speaker
Michael Rauch
(Univ. Karlsruhe, KIT)
Description
The production of electro-weak bosons via weak boson fusion is an
important process at the LHC, as it allows testing the Standard Model
(SM) in various ways. For example, if at least two bosons are produced,
Feynman graphs with quartic gauge couplings appear. Therefore, this
process class can be used to constrain or discover contributions from
anomalous quartic gauge couplings. Also, at large invariant masses of
the bosonic system, contributions from intermediate Higgs bosons are
necessary to ensure the unitarization of the cross section. Deviations
will occur if this unitarization is not complete, because the coupling
of the Higgs to gauge bosons deviates from the SM value, or there are
further Higgs bosons at higher masses. To facilitate this task, precise
theoretical predictions are necessary.
In this talk, I will summarize the current theoretical status of
higher-order corrections and matching fixed-order calculations with
parton shower. Examples will be given how this process class can be
used to perform the SM tests mentioned above.
Primary author
Michael Rauch
(Univ. Karlsruhe, KIT)
