NLO QCD Predictions for W+3 jets

/ Authors

D. Maître, U. Durham, C. Berger, Z. Bern, F. Cordero, H. Ita, L. Dixon, D. Forde, T. Gleisberg, D. Kosower

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/ Abstract

In this contribution we present results from the NLO computation of the production of a W boson in association with three jets in hadronic collisions. The results are obtained by combining two programs: BlackHat for the virtual one-loop matrix elements and Sherpa for the real-emission contributions. We present results for the Tevatron and the LHC, and address the issue of the choice of a common factorization and renormalization scale for this process.