Associated production of a W-boson and a charm meson at NNLO in QCD
Abstract
A bstract The production of heavy-flavor hadrons in association with a vector boson in proton-proton collisions is a powerful probe for studying Quantum Chromodynamics and the content of protons. In this article, we provide, for the first time, differential predictions through NNLO for the production of W ± D (∗)∓ final states. The results are compared to recent ATLAS measurements, and the sensitivity to the strange content of the proton is investigated by PDF profiling. The results are found to be promising for including W ± D (∗)∓ measurements in proton-proton collisions in PDF fits.
Fields of Study & Subjects
High-Energy Particle Collisions Research
Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies
Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Journal of High Energy Physics
- Publisher
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC
- Volume
- 2026
- Issue
- 2
- Publication date
- 2 February 2026
- Language
- EN