Associated production of a $W$-boson and a charm meson at NNLO in QCD

Generet, Terry (author), Poncelet, Rene (author), Muškinja, Miha (author)

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.

• Language: English
• Keywords: high energy physics, physics of elementary particles
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FMF - Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2026
• Number of pages: 18 str.
• Numbering: Vol. 2026, art. no. 23
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-179159
• UDC: 539.1
• ISSN on article: 1029-8479
• DOI: 10.1007/JHEP02(2026)023
• COBISS.SI-ID: 267551747
• Publication date in RUL: 06.02.2026

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: The journal of high energy physics
• Shortened title: J. high energy phys.
• Publisher: SISSA
• ISSN: 1029-8479
• COBISS.SI-ID: 1314148

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Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Keywords: fizika visokih energij, fizika osnovnih delcev