Type: Article
Publication Date: 2006-10-12
Citations: 151
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.74.073005
We analyze the potential of the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to study the structure of quartic vector-boson interactions through the pair production of electroweak gauge bosons via weak boson fusion $qq\ensuremath{\rightarrow}qqWW$. In order to study these couplings we have performed a partonic level calculation of all processes $pp\ensuremath{\rightarrow}jj{e}^{\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}}{\ensuremath{\mu}}^{\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}}\ensuremath{\nu}\ensuremath{\nu}$ and $pp\ensuremath{\rightarrow}jj{e}^{\ifmmode\pm\else\textpm\fi{}}{\ensuremath{\mu}}^{\ensuremath{\mp}}\ensuremath{\nu}\ensuremath{\nu}$ at the LHC using the exact matrix elements at $\mathcal{O}({\ensuremath{\alpha}}_{\mathrm{em}}^{6})$ and $\mathcal{O}({\ensuremath{\alpha}}_{\mathrm{em}}^{4}{\ensuremath{\alpha}}_{s}^{2})$ as well as a full simulation of the $t\overline{t}$ plus 0 to 2 jets backgrounds. A complete calculation of the scattering amplitudes is necessary not only for a correct description of the process but also to preserve all correlations between the final-state particles which can be used to enhance the signal. Our analyses indicate that the LHC can improve by more than 1 order of magnitude the bounds arising at the present from indirect measurements.