Precise predictions for (non-standard) W+photon+jet production
Abstract
We report on a detailed investigation of the next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD corrections to Wγ+jet production at the Tevatron and the LHC using a fully-flexible parton-level Monte Carlo program. We include the full leptonic decay of the W, taking into account all off-shell and finite width effects, as well as non-standard WWγ couplings. We find particularly sizable corrections for the currently allowed parameter range of anomalous couplings imposed by LEP data. In total the NLO differential distributions reveal a substantial phase space dependence of the corrections, leaving considerable sensitivity to anomalous couplings beyond scale uncertainty at large momentum transfers in the anomalous vertex.
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