20.500.12556/RUL-179159 Associated production of a $W$-boson and a charm meson at NNLO in QCD 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 $W^{\pm}D^{(\ast)\mp}$ 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 $W^{\pm}D^{(\ast)\mp}$ measurements in proton-proton collisions in PDF fits. high energy physics physics of elementary particles fizika visokih energij fizika osnovnih delcev true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Članek v reviji 2026-02-06 09:19:00 2026-02-06 09:19:01 2026-02-08 04:24:54 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2026 0 0 18 str. art. no. 23 Vol. 2026 Feb. 2026 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 539.1 1029-8479 10.1007/JHEP02(2026)023 267551747 JHEP02(2026)023.pdf JHEP02(2026)023.pdf 1 933BEF87C74DADB01F6C9A93A58F88B9 5b88209547148752c5ee62eca7bf1d95cc34976740407e576242de8b3fdd7173 e78d257c-0334-11f1-a1ba-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=227382 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/JHEP02(2026)023 0 ef9beadf-0334-11f1-a1ba-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=227383 Fakulteta za matematiko in fiziko 0 0 0