Abstract
We consider QCD radiative corrections to the production of four charged leptons in the ZZ signal region at the LHC. We report on the complete calculation of the next-to-next-to-leading order (NNLO) corrections to this process in QCD perturbation theory. Numerical results are presented for s=8 TeV, using typical selection cuts applied by the ATLAS and CMS Collaborations. The NNLO corrections increase the NLO fiducial cross section by about 15%, and they have a relatively small impact on the shape of the considered kinematical distributions. In the case of the ΔΦ distribution of the two Z candidates, the computed corrections improve the agreement of the theoretical prediction with the CMS data.
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